We’ve been demonizing sunlight for years. A new book by Rowan Jacobsen digs into the science—and says we’ve got it all wrong.

Researchers studying this have reached some surprising conclusions. From a global perspective, public trust in science and ...

Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science-communication researcher that they thought trust in science was low in their countries. Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a ...

I'm Elizabeth Rayne, and this is "Pop Mech Explains Precognition," where we investigate the science and speculation behind ...

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...

Whether or not God exists “is not just one question among others — it is the question,” says one author of a newly translated book about the interplay between science and faith. “It asks whether we ...

Are space science, cosmology and astronomy just guesswork?

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

Aravind Srinivas, PhD, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, was on the Joe Rogan Podcast talking about Anthony Fauci: JOE ...

Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of ...