Even for scientists, policy decisions entail much more than science.

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

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

What keeps us honest?

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

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

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

What happens when diagnosis is automated?

After flunking a calculus test, I worried I wouldn't make it in science. But I stuck with it, even as people I knew dropped out after their first failure.

Steps to reduce waste of funds in research.

And more than a little quixotic.

Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science.

Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place.

This is not about Republicans versus Democrats. It is about a more fundamental divide, between those who believe in evidence as a basis for life-altering and nation-defining decisions and those who adhere unflinchingly to dogma.

Would it be better to do away with the search for excellence, and to fund science by lottery?

Papers published in low-impact journals are not necessarily low-quality scientific contributions.

The region's scientists lament that their research is too often disconnected from the larger scientific world. In the age of Zika, that needs to change.

Last year, NIH implemented a policy to push scientists to consider how sex affects biological systems. Critics worry it goes too far.

Last month I found myself sitting on a leather couch, my black dress smoothed over my knees, in a hushed wood-paneled room in Washington, D.C.

What few details appear in 2018 blueprint shock Congress and community.

Broader forms of activism are needed to protect evidence-based policy.

Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.

"Simply put, we can’t keep preparing children for a world that doesn’t exist."

Does the closing of @AxiosReview portend the end of independent peer review, or just the wrong business model?

My uncle immigrated to the United States in 1956 with no assets, a brilliant mind, ambition, and a faith that America was a great country of opportunity. He escaped from Hungary, a country of communists, at the time a source of great fear among many US politicians. If the US President at his time were making policy similar to our President today, my uncle would’ve never been allowed in the US.

How a seemingly innocent blog post led to serious doubts about Cornell’s famous food laboratory.

Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.

Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.

It’s a bloodbath.

For those researchers, the pressure to publish is intense, as they vie for the few jobs at the heads of academic labs. This atmosphere can lead to mistakes.