“Would the world be a better, or even a different, place if the public understood more of the scope and the limitations, the findings and the methods of science?” This question was taken up in 1985 by ...

SCIENCE is the culmination of humanity’s attempts to reason about the world. It produces knowledge in a reliable way, and it has done so with great success. It has revealed many of nature’s secrets, ...

The practice of making science more understandable to the public in one form or another has manifested itself for a long time, almost simultaneously with its inception. Science communication. Image ...

If American education understood, not superficially but to its core, the importance of knowledge and its foundational role in human cognition, teaching would look and sound very different. The ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...