NAS panel on communicating science features only Democratic science advisers

Legendary scientist Reichard Feynman offered a simple but profound lesson about how we understand the world in a lecture at Cornell in 1964. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. How we think about it makes no important difference.

Spending bill hits programs at NSF and Census Bureau

Anonymous Web site claims Annette Schavan's 1980 Ph.D. thesis contains dozens of improper citations

Not all scientists are nerds. In “Free Radicals,” physicist Michael Brooks tries to dispel the notion that scientists are stuffy, pen-protector-polishing bookworms.

NSF and NASA got off to a strong start last week in the annual congressional budget race

The tension between the two realms is greater than it's been in years, some scientists say. The latest battle played out in Tennessee, which just enacted a law that encourages teachers to question evolution despite the accepted science.

Senate panel approves a 3.3% increase for 2013

The Harvard researcher and author holds court on breadth, getting help with math, and stepping away from the blackboard.

193 papers by a Japanese anesthesiologist are under review