Computational biologist Brandon Ogbunu explores and writes about the intersection of science, society, and culture. We spoke ...

Academia isn't strong on gender equality. Women are underrepresented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organizations. This is true for science academies ...

Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the ...

Former Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth resigned after going on a tirade about President Trump following the election. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientific ...

Over the last two weeks, in response to Executive Order 14035, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has discontinued funding for research on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as support ...

For 300 years explorers and naturalists have reported another kind of firefly behavior, seen in the region stretching from ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

Explore differences between common and scientific names, and how DNA evidence is constantly reshaping the tree of life.