While other countries around the world employed Mendelian genetics to increase agricultural yields, Lysenko touted a debunked ...

For years, scientists have insisted that science is not political. This has always been fiction. Yet recently, the politicization of science and scientific research has become increasingly visible.

We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts. “I never thought of myself as an activist — that’s never ...

For only the second time in its 179-year history, Scientific American has endorsed a candidate for president: Kamala Harris. I’ve heard arguments that this was a bad idea, that it is unlikely to move ...

A new student organization is hoping to help students participate in politics by building computer science skills. Political Computer Science at ASU focuses on the intersection of computer science and ...

(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. There’s a scene in the movie “Oppenheimer” in which Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron and head of his ...

At one end of Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway there is a cultural hub consisting of a busy library, a beautiful botanical garden and a world-class museum. Walking distance from there, just a few blocks ...

Recent UI graduate Delaney Behning just completed her bachelor’s degree in political science and is ready to take her next steps into the field and her career. The University of Iowa has a prominent ...

One often hears in conversations such questions as, what can one do with Classics and Philosophy, or Sociology and Political Science?