This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third and final installment of my ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 2:30 PM on Wednesday, December 15th. Please scroll down to view. On December 15, AEI hosted a conversation about the roles of expertise ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...

Last week Sen. James Inhofe, a staunch conservative Republican from Oklahoma and chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, received an award for his support of "rational, science-based ...

“The good thing about Science,” TV science evangelist and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted in 2013, “is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Protesters at the “March for Science ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American While modern science seems committed to the ...

“If the substance of a thing is made of its relations with other things, a way to show that substance is to prove that these relations resist, that they are recalcitrant.” Let’s be honest: Nobody ...

What is one scientific idea you wish everyone would understand, and why? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique ...

Academics and journalists alike are fond of declaring that objectivity in journalism is outright impossible. The fallback is to say that even though the ideal of objectivity might be unattainable, it ...