Our scientists justifiably feel mistreated and neglected on important policy matters. Their expertise on climate change, stem cells, and other crucial matters has been rebuffed. When ...

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Textbooks appear to be a battleground for some local school boards. In Wilson County, a school board member claimed a book recommended by teachers had an “outdated view ...

Behind the confident headlines about climate change, a different conversation unfolds in academic circles. There is a very intense debate going on among the climate scientist community about whether ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This catchall term often means genetic engineering – introducing new genes to an ...

If one is a psychologist or even has a passing interest in the field, one has likely encountered the question about whether psychology is truly a science or not. The debate has been prominent since ...

As the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) expands and integrates into various parts of society, it raises new questions. Among the most intriguing of these are the debates surrounding AI rights ...

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

While many of my readers are philosophers, or have at least studied philosophy for a while at university, many are not. So I was reluctant to get into metaphysical debates within philosophy, fearing ...