Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...

Classical and scientific management theories emphasize efficiency and task specialization through systematic study of workers ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S.

In casual conversation, people often use the word theory to mean "hunch" or "guess": If you forget to put the bread in the breadbox and discover chunks have been taken out of it the next morning, you ...

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from National Science Foundation, ND EPSCoR, and the National Institute of Health. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing ...

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The COVID era has been difficult for scientists whose ideas run against the grain of powerful scientific and government bureaucracies. Even for university scientists with unblemished reputations in ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

Former Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth resigned after going on a tirade about President Trump following the election. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientific ...

Humans live in a universe; that is a fact. Up for debate, though, is whether that universe lives in a sea of other universes—a multiverse. The idea of a multiverse is the subject of much science ...