Officials at scientific societies and advocacy organizations urge lawmakers to push back against proposed cuts at the NIH and other agencies.

See a preview of the app that lets you ask questions of a virtual Charles Darwin.

Researchers could become better at engaging in public discourse by more fully considering the social and cultural contexts of their work.

In a shifting media landscape with a growing public interest in science, some researchers are doing their own PR.

A survey finds that arts, humanities, and social science faculty members in the U.K. engage more with the general public than their counterparts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

A close cooperation between science, politics, and economics has helped to control one of history’s most destructive epidemics.
 

Artist Anicka Yi explores the beauty of bacteria.

With more and more bad science infiltrating the media landscape, it’s time for researchers to speak up.

Concerns about the relationship between science and society transcend traditional political differences.

A new public opinion poll shows European Union citizens feel favorably about science and technology, but in the dark about advances in the fields.