News recently broke that Stockholm University's Sven Hovmöller had discovered the atomic structure of complex crystals known as approximants -- a complicated chemistry riddle he spent eight years pondering. But the real story behind the story was that he credited his breakthrough to insights from his then 10-year-old son, Linus,...

We hear a lot about American children's poor performance in science. But we really ought to be worried about the scientific ignorance of American adults.

Most of our fellow citizens can't describe the structure of the atom. They maintain that humans and other animals have existed in their present...

The era of America's unchallenged world dominance as a scientific superpower is coming to an end. Other countries, such as China and India, have been steadily building up science research infrastructures to rival and perhaps even surpass that of the U.S. Both of these nations are advancing their scientific agendas...

This has been the summer of our numerical discontent.

As a nation, we've been riveted by the debates over the debt-ceiling crisis, the credit downgrade, the dizzying ascents and descents of the stock market. But how many people actually understand the numbers they're watching?

It's not just how many zeroes...