By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

Good journalists offer a breadth and critical perspective that can, in professional scientists, atrophy through overspecialization, so their work benefits specialists as well as the wider public.

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

Scientists need to be good storytellers in order to be effective communicators, and a good story requires a strong narrative. But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that ...

There are many brilliant science podcasts out there, with something for everyone. Below are just a few of the current popular science podcasts, but the list is certainly not exhaustive. Spotify, Apple ...

Today's major research universities routinely “buy” scientists to help turn their most promising research programs into world-class ones. Why, then, after spending so much money to woo these big time ...

Do Scientists Make Good Presidents? Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in science and ...

English May Be Science’s Native Language, but It’s Not Native to All Scientists There are talented scientists worldwide who do not speak fluent English.

On July 3, 1945, 10 German scientists who had worked on Germany’s nuclear program were interned by the Allies at a country mansion called Farm Hall, in Godmanchester, England, about 20 miles northwest ...

Newly published research in the journal Nature demonstrates a novel way of generating phonon-polaritons by making electrons collide with crystal lattice structures. The discovery paves the way for ...

This week, Mexico elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo — a politician with a background in physics and environmental engineering. Despite her scientific pedigree, not all ...

How Scientists Can Be Good Citizens We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.