We don’t have this down to a science. Americans are ignorant about what’s going on in the scientific world, be it new health studies, climate change news or information on genetically modified foods.

America’s scientific dominance was never inevitable; in the 1920s, serious PhDs went to Europe. World War II changed everything. Afterward, the United States built an unmatched innovation ecosystem ...

The route from scientific discovery to useful invention is often long, tortuous and extends over a horizon concealing a destination that can’t be seen — or sometimes even imagined. Two new books on ...

The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, celebrated in 2022, recognizes that basic sciences are vital to attain sustainable development and to improve the quality of life ...

Organization: The Science Philanthropy Alliance, which commissioned the Voluntary Support of Education to add a questionnaire to its annual survey in 2015. Summary: A survey of U.S. higher-education ...

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from rese ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

For investigators of basic science, this trend creates a conundrum. Go where the money is, or hope that basic science retains its financial foothold. Some adroitly plant a foot in each camp — although ...

Leading scientists and policy experts in China have called for greater support for basic research, saying it is a key to cultural confidence. At a TED-like event in Beijing on Saturday, astrophysicist ...

Short swarthy, smiling Leon Svirsky, a Nieman Fellow, on leave of absence from Time Magazine where he edited the Science department, fondly thinks that the traditional Time Jargon is one the way out. ...