A comparison with the early Reagan budgets shows many similarities, but also demonstrates the Trump Administration is far more willing to scale back even basic science.

Automation has the potential to replace or alter 35 million jobs worldwide, which means universities must adapt to survive.

The recent election cycle has made it abundantly clear to most scientists that a large fraction of adults in the United States are surprisingly susceptible to illogical arguments designed to fool them.

Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,

And how to fix it.

Massive funding cuts in the president's proposed budget could be more devastating than any threat posed by illegal immigrants.

Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.

What keeps us honest?

Is digital technology making fundamental changes to learning and teaching, transforming it in ways that were unimaginable before the advent of the internet?

Popular-audience science writing are more concerned with what we don't know than what we do.

Trump's first budget blueprint is a cramped document that sacrifices American innovation to small-bore politics, shortchanging basic scientific research across the government.