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Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism
Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism
Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.
Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism
Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism

Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.

Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.

culture, science history

First Micrographs of Myxobacteria Forming Fruiting Bodies
Tracy Vence | Aug 1, 2016 | 3 min read
By ditching traditional agar-based media, two biochemists captured iconic images of Myxococcus in 1982.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Dec 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Welcome to the Microbiome, The Paradox of Evolution, Newton's Apple, and Dawn of the Neuron.
Book Excerpt from Faith vs. Fact
Jerry A. Coyne | Jun 30, 2015 | 4 min read
In Chapter 1, “The Problem,” author Jerry Coyne sets the historical stage for his suggestion that science and religion are not compatible and never will be.
Reimagining Humanity
Ian Tattersall | Jun 1, 2015 | 3 min read
As the science of paleoanthropology developed, human evolutionary trees changed as much as the minds that constructed them.
Opinion: Science & Religion: A Centuries-old War Rages On
Jerry A. Coyne | May 18, 2015 | 4 min read
While some in the scientific and religious communities have declared an end to the tensions between faith and fact, the conflict continues to have impacts on health, politics, and the environment.
Setbacks and Great Leaps
Sue Armstrong | Apr 1, 2015 | 3 min read
The tale of p53, a widely studied tumor suppressor gene, illustrates the inventiveness of researchers who turn mishaps into discoveries.
Book Excerpt from p53
Sue Armstrong | Mar 31, 2015 | 4 min read
In Chapter 12, "Of Mice and Men," author Sue Armstrong recounts the point at which researchers moved from working with p53 in tissue culture to studying the gene in animal models.
Books on the Beagle
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Jul 17, 2014 | 2 min read
An online reconstruction makes the library from Darwin’s famed ship more accessible. 
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Mar 1, 2014 | 3 min read
The Sixth Extinction, Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love, Ha! The Science of When we Laugh and Why, and Ten Thousand Birds
Renard's Menagerie
Abby Olena, PhD | Dec 31, 2013 | 1 min read
Some of the fantastical marine life depicted in a rare, 18th-century book
Contributors
Abby Olena, PhD | Nov 1, 2013 | 3 min read
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Chance and Necessity
Sean B. Carroll | Nov 1, 2013 | 3 min read
War and justice brought together two of the greatest minds of the 20th century, a scientist and a writer.
Book Excerpt from Brave Genius
Sean B. Carroll | Oct 31, 2013 | 4 min read
In Chapter 20, “On the Same Path,” author Sean Carroll describes the initial meeting between Nobel Laureates Jacques Monod and Albert Camus.
A Fly on the Wall
Dan Cossins | Jul 19, 2013 | 4 min read
A geneticist-turned-filmmaker is making a movie set in Columbia University’s famous Fly Room, where the foundations for modern genetics were laid.
Darwin Didn't Plagiarize Wallace
Bob Grant | Dec 13, 2011 | 1 min read
19th century shipping records defy the claim that Charles Darwin stole some of Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas to craft his theory of evolution.
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