Viewed together, these outline a political strategy toward science that is both systematic and dangerous: a full-scale war on the scientific community, the network of individual researchers across ...

RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies.

Trump’s science guidelines could amplify climate skeptics By Scott Waldman | 07/03/2025 06:37 AM EDT The new White House rules put more power in the hands of political appointees.

Your favorite Youtuber disagrees with the science. Why shouldn't you believe them? There's an answer from a researcher who studies what makes science work.

Essay challenge: ChatGPT vs students Study reveals who writes better (and it's not the AI) Date: May 1, 2025 Source: University of East Anglia Summary: Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays ...

Divya Ganesan is a senior at Stanford University, where she is the student body vice president. An earlier version of this essay was published in The Stanford Daily.

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

The U.S. university-federal partnership is a miracle for global scientific progress. It must be protected, Mary Sue Coleman writes.

The most read First Opinion essays of 2024 covered everything from the health insurance industry backlash to the right way to approach colonoscopy prep.

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Science and technology, understood as disciplines removed from or even superior to questions of morality, cannot provide a sense of meaning, and that is a cause of distress, particularly for the young ...