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A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, such as an eclipse, they more closely identify with science and feel a ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

Science can improve people’s lives and extend human knowledge — if there is strong public support behind it. Yet there is widespread concern that this trust is eroding. In fact, public trust in ...

An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers. Neil Shubin, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago ...

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed science, found it lacking, and ...

A pioneering new beat on how trust in science has been eroded. Follow Nicholas Florko as he probes where and why trust is breaking down as well as the consequences of that skepticism.