LONG BEACH, CA—Stuart Firestein chairs the biological sciences department at Columbia University, and he came to the stage on the second day of the TED2013 conference in Southern California to address ...

Maybe you've heard the following philosophical question: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Similarly, if you make a scientific discovery, but no one ...

The following is an excerpt from If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?, by Alan Alda. We’ve worked with thousands of scientists and doctors at the Center for Communicating Science, ...

DENVER — Our science guy, Steve Spangler, has some fun and easy experiments you can try at home. Most of them require things you probably have around the house like milk, cornstarch, cups and rubber ...

Like many Australians, you may have recoiled in horror or laughed heartily when the results of the Australian Academy of Science’s science literacy survey surfaced last month. You may have had a ...