Society & Policy

The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World

Pope calls for “serious attention”

VW’s emissions scandal surprised many, but it had been brewing for awhile, says Paul Nieuwenhuis, co-director of Cardiff University's Electric Vehicle Center of Excellence

Existing sources of methane emissions from the oil and gas sector must be addressed in order to effectively solve the problem

Pope Francis’s ideas on environmental stewardship may face resistance

A comic about confirmation bias.

At the recent DARPA Wait What? conference, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said lifesaving technologies are a priority for his department

A team from the Francis Crick Institute wants a permit to use so-called CRISPR/Cas 9 technology in basic research

Pope Francis and Jimmy Carter view the arms industry and U.S. hawkishness as major impediments to peace.

EPA charges that the German automaker installed emissions-control software designed to work only during tests

As Daniel Boorstin, former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of History, once put it, clockmakers were the "pioneer scientific instrument makers"  

Unlike past elections, global warming may emerge as a significant policy issue in the 2016 campaign