The energy state of an atom is denoted by its principal quantum number, designated n, which defines the probability of ...

Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

Democrats continue to be more likely than Republicans to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...