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 ...

The exponential growth in scientific knowledge, and the myriad technological innovations it has spawned over the past two centuries, has given rise to the expectation that scientific progress will ...

Everyone knows that The Scientific Method is the key to doing science. No-one's quite sure what it is, but they know it's there, and it's something rather special. It's not. When scientists sit down ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Relegating the Methods section to the end of research papers undermines scientific appraisal. It is time to return to the ...

What is science? It’s the methodical investigation of the natural world. Here, a geologist obtains a sample of molten lava. Image via Bob Tilling/ USGS (PDM 1.0). Science is a way of learning about ...

The era where outdated study methods work is over. A "new generation of learning methods" that combines scientific evidence with AI technology is now attracting attention from a wide range of people, ...

Scientific thinking is not limited to laboratories or researchers in white coats peering into microscopes. It is a way of reasoning that empowers everyday citizens to make informed, data-driven ...