How could we truly distinguish great science from good science? Often, we can't. Nor should we, in many cases -- although journal "impact factors" are being used to try to do just that.
By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/16/2013 09:58 AM EDT on LiveScience Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those ...
The sequester will not end scientific research in our country. However, I am afraid that it is symptomatic of a broader decline in our commitment to science as a nation. As a student of science and a potential member of the generation to come, I feel that we need to be heard.
Service-learning is successful if civic engagement becomes a way of life for our college students, both before and after graduation.
Identifying and nurturing unusual scientific talent is an important challenge for educators. What is being done today to ensure that great creative potential is given a chance? Are there enough avenues available for self-directed creative individuals, much needed in science?
In a few hours my paralyzed son Roman Reed and I will be driving to Sacramento, to fight for funding for spinal cord injury research (AB 714, Wieckows...
The flattening in support for biomedical research as well as other research fields in the United States over the last decade is having serious consequences for American science and scientists.
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/06/2013 01:05 PM EST on LiveScience Though women now receive half the doctorates in ...
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 01/22/2013 07:01 AM EST on LiveScience Men are more likely than women to commit scient...
The minute hand of the Doomsday Clock will stay at five minutes to midnight for the year 2013, say the scientists and experts at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who maintain one of the world's most famous time pieces.
"Honesty is the best policy," goes the old truism. But as the latest trending hashtag on Twitter illustrates oh-so-well, it may not be the best policy...
Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth. Time to wave peak oil goodbye forever... but before you do I should probably inform you of the tiny hiccup in any plan to develop this oil field.
Yes climate change is a jobs issue and moreover, it's the foremost personal and national security issue. The misery delivered by hurricane Sandy has unveiled the hazard of a wait-and-see policy. What are we waiting for now?
The basic hostility to techniques that don't fit the old conceptual model is still very active and entrenched. I believe it begins all too often in our graduate curricula, where scientific imagination is frequently seen as an attack on received wisdom.
Further "education" on climate science alone is unlikely to make inroads with people who have already decided that climate change is not real or not human-induced.
The traditional portrait of William Harvey is, I argue, an icon of an objective, quasi-mystical form of empirical science that Harvey himself never practiced or believed in, but which continues to find adherents today.
Absent a commitment by our government to the direct support of basic biomedical research, our country will be unable to inspire young people to choose science as a career and will lose the ideas those young people could bring to future discovery.
Science may very well be a means of explaining the workings of God. We may have been given the necessary tools to explore and explain our existence.
Bagging man's best friend's smelly situation can be considered a contribution to science, according to the University of Calgary in Canada. Scienti...
My hunch is that fossils are now speaking out to us loud and clear. And that microscopic fossils have the very darkest stories to tell. The ways of the world can be read within a grain of sand.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former scientist at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing research to share wit...
If scientists get any media attention it's only because the science-deniers are ridiculing them. We live in the Era of Willful Ignorance. It is not only acceptable; it is fashionable to throw scientific caution to the wind.
Sometimes doing something stupid or undignified is the only way to make the discovery or breakthrough you have been reaching towards. Sure, you might break a taboo or two, and you'll almost certainly break the rules, but since when did playing safe win anyone a Nobel Prize?
Have you ever thought, "wow, crabs are really the laziest of crustaceans, someone should really find them something to do"? No? Well fear not, because...
Biases are very important to the sciences. That's primarily that you have to understand them in order to avoid or correct for them. The most famous bias is probably the "selection bias."
