A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, such as an eclipse, they more closely identify with science and feel a ...

Scientists have captured a never-before-seen phase of matter—and it may help unlock the next generation of quantum technologies. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com Researchers from Brown University and the ...

Niels Mede is curious about how the public views science. Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science-communication researcher that they thought trust in science was low in their countries ...

Academia isn’t strong on gender equality. Women are under-represented throughout, in the research workforce and even more so as leaders in scientific organisations. This is true for science academies ...

Science can improve people’s lives and extend human knowledge — if there is strong public support behind it. Yet there is widespread concern that this trust is eroding. In fact, public trust in ...

An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers. Neil Shubin, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago ...

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed science, found it lacking, and ...