Science is supposed to make the world feel more understandable, but sometimes it does the opposite. Ancient viruses frozen in ...

It's quite easily right at the top of the list. In fact, the scientific method is designed precisely to answer it. Rigorously following a procedure involving observation, hypothesis and ...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has given states final say over if and when abortions are legal, the political debates over abortion rights will intensify in legislatures and courthouses around the ...

What are some questions science can never answer? originally appeared on Quora - the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

Science matters. It matters to people in our local assemblies, to people in hospitals and businesses, to students and faculty in schools and colleges: science is important. Yet religious faith has ...

What are the limits of human knowledge? Or is that something we cannot know? This is the question pondered by Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, mathematician, ...

Science educators spend a lot of time debating what students need to learn to be considered scientifically literate. Despite our best intentions, many of these conversations boil down to a ...

Last April, I joined more than a dozen cognitive scientists at a workshop called "Breaking New Ground in the Science-Religion Dialogue." The workshop, organized by Cristine Legare at the University of ...