(NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS) This Week in Science: Staring at the Sun, unraveling the 'farm effect', and much more! First up: You're ...

A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, such as an eclipse, they more closely identify with science and feel a ...

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen phase of matter—and it may help unlock the next generation of quantum technologies. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com Researchers from Brown University and the ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

Science can improve people’s lives and extend human knowledge — if there is strong public support behind it. Yet there is widespread concern that this trust is eroding. In fact, public trust in ...

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed science, found it lacking, and ...

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are under-represented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organisations. This is true for science academies ...

An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers. Neil Shubin, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago ...