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 ...

Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh for TIME (Source Images: See bottom of page) Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

The world is undergoing a generational shift in the way in which news is being reported and disseminated. Social-media platforms have upended who can make news content and at what cost. Information ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more than $5 billion in Federal commitments ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...