
Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade
Katie Worth is a freelance writer in Boston. She is author of Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports, 2021). Credit: Nick Higgins
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade
Old grudges between three teams of astronomers have threatened the survival of ground-based astronomy's boldest, biggest projects
Construction has begun on the Thirty Meter Telescope, despite continuing opposition by cultural and environmental activists
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The first bird being considered for endangered species protections due to climate change migrates 30,000 kilometers a year
Importing the incisor-toothed hydrologists from Canada to the southernmost tip of South America seemed like a good idea in 1946, but it wasn’t
Science couples who overcame the two-body problem collaborate in the lab and the home
The Planetary Lake Lander is testing autonomous exploration technologies for a future mission to Saturn’s most intriguing moon
Remember that $800 billion Uncle Sam spent during the Great Recession? Here are some of the consequences
Editor’s note: Researchers exploring Mars via rover and satellite have to adapt to the longer day on the Red Planet. Katie Worth, whose Can Earthlings Adapt to the Longer Day on Mars?
“The witching hour, someone had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.” Roald Dahl, “The BFG,” about five minutes before the protagonist is kidnapped by a giant.As a kid I was obsessed with this idea of a witching hour, a time when, I imagined, every person living in my town, everyone I’d ever met and everyone they’d ever met, would be simultaneously asleep...
Editor’s note: Researchers exploring Mars via rover and satellite have to adapt to the longer day on the Red Planet. Katie Worth, whose Can Earthlings Adapt to the Longer Day on Mars?
Editor’s note: Researchers exploring Mars via rover and satellite have to adapt to the longer day on the Red Planet. Katie Worth, whose Can Earthlings Adapt to the Longer Day on Mars?...
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