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How Big Data Can Help Save the World

Emerging analytic and computing tools are enabling much better use of huge data sets

Coastal Conservation Plan Sparks Fight Over Sand

Beach communities that rely on dredging to replenish protective dunes object to expanded federal protections

How to Deal with Chaos in Climate and Politics

In complex systems, small changes can make big differences

Challenging Academic Publishing

A pilot collaboration between Springer Nature and ResearchGate aims to boost visibility for research articles on a network for connecting with peers

The Humanities and the Future

Our descendants’ lives will be intertwined with advanced technologies—and that will revitalize non-technological disciplines such as philosophy

U.S. Communities Urged to Boost Immunity to “Shock Events”

Past disasters point to steps cities and counties can take to bolster their resilience

Opting Out of Vaccines Should Opt You Out of American Society

People who are able to take vaccines but refuse to do so are the moral equivalent of drunk drivers

Study on Weed Killers and Monarch Butterflies Spurs Ecological Flap

Some scientists question museum data analysis that suggests Roundup is not responsible for the insects’ decline

Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says

In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief

Science Should Be More Helpful to New Parents

We need paid leave so young researchers can start families without abandoning STEM careers

Soap-Bubble Pioneer Is First Woman to Win Prestigious Math Prize

Abel-prize winner Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck built bridges between analysis, geometry and physics

Are We Measuring Research Success Wrong?

Universities tout how much they spend, but it’s no virtue if that spending is inefficient

Researchers Write about Brain-Machine Interfaces, How Eels Shock, and What Shark Bites Have to Do with Rebuilding Broken Bodies 

Whose Job Is It to Help Build Public Trust in Science?

Scientists, research institutions and science writers all have roles to play

Is NASA’s Golden Age of Space Telescopes Ending?

For the second year in a row, the White House is seeking to cancel one of the space agency’s top-priority astrophysics projects, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope

The Private Sector Is Returning to the Flood Insurance Game

New technology and increased investment could help expand paltry flood coverage

The Cuban "Sonic Attack" and Journalistic Ethics

A session at a recent scientific meeting exposed the dangers not of mythical high-tech weapons but of the heedless rush to sensationalize

U.S. Blocks U.N. Resolution on Geoengineering

The measure called for a report on carbon capture and solar radiation management

Supersensitive Telescope Gets Global Governing Body

CERN-like organization will oversee the construction and operation of the powerful Square Kilometer Array

On Pi Day, Let's Disrupt Our Narrow Notions of STEM

A festival in Dallas shows how these fields connect to most spheres of human activity, including the arts, humanities and design