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One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great “contribution” to science: the killing of…

The repercussions from the decimation of staff at the Education Department keep coming. Last week, the fallout led to a delay in releasing results from a…

Every year for the past 25 years, I have taught an intermediate-level undergraduate course at Indiana University Bloomington called The Declaration of Independence and the Meaning…

The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are “corrupt.” “We’re…

Jane Qiu rightly identifies that public trust in science has diminished in recent times (The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy – pretending…

Vaccines are a marvel of modern medicine: the carefully tested and regulated technologies teach people’s immune systems how to fight off potentially fatal infections, saving both…

Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters BuildingEmployees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing…

Microsoft’s chief scientist has warned that Donald Trump’s proposed ban on state-level guardrails on artificial intelligence will slow the development of the frontier technology rather than…

The federal government annually spends billions funding research at Harvard, part of a decades-old system that is little understood by the public but essential to American…

July/August 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoToxic cigars; dueling with a swordfishBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Particle Annihilation: “A positron propagates as a…