When Anna Otto evangelizes about the power of computer science to transform lives, she’s not just talking as the computer science coordinator for a suburban Colorado district. She’s speaking as a mom.

Effective communication by scientists helps to bridge the gap between science and society, ensuring that the public understands and values the contributions of chemistry to improving quality of life ...

Science is not, as Star Trek's Spock would say, 'logical, Captain'. If it were, scientists would be out of a job because everything would follow from a few basic ideas, and there would be no need for ...

It’s a precarious time for science in the United States. Federal funding is being slashed, career scientists are being laid off, and researchers are considering leaving to work abroad. On top of that, ...

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

The Smithsonian Science Education Center’s elementary curriculum, Smithsonian Science for the Classroom, received an “all-green” rating for its grades 3–5 instructional materials in a new report ...

When you listen to experts who are using artificial intelligence in scientific endeavors, you realize how incredibly useful the capabilities of LLMs are in scientific discovery. Why? Well, science is ...

Katalin Karikó thought the call was a joke. It was 3 a.m. on October 2, 2023. Her husband answered the phone. As someone in building maintenance, “he quite frequently gets calls for fixing this and ...

Dr. Barak is a professor of computer science at Harvard University. On Oct. 8, 2023, I was on the steps of Harvard’s Widener Library, taking part in a vigil for the victims of Hamas’s terrorist attack ...