Don’t Worry About the Human Gene Pool
Modern medicine may or may not be changing the evolutionary process, but we shouldn’t care. By Michael White…
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How to Win a Science Contest
Your best strategy depends on whether you're an outsider—but don't forget the hard work.
Have American Schoolteachers Subconsciously Absorbed Climate-Denying Dogma?
We don't let flat-Earthers influence our science curricula. So why should climate skeptics have a say?
Is It Time for Biologists to Stop Thinking About Race?
While social scientists should continue to study the social meaning of race, the concept has no place in biology, scientists argue.
My Big Night Out Playing With the Nightingales of Berlin
Spoiler alert: We laid down some serious tracks.
How the Term ‘Anti-Science’ Distorts America’s Relationship With Technology
Placed in historical perspective, the popular opposition to things like GMOs and vaccines, much like 19th-century opposition to fertilizers and insecticides, reflects less an overt rejection of science than a distrust of experts who peddle it.
Ten Times Science Made Us Feel Better About Humanity in 2015
A toast to this year's most awesome science headlines.
A Better Measure of the Return on Investment America Gets From Funding Research
Follow the people, not the papers.
Could Climate Change Trigger Another Genocide?
Historian and author Timothy Snyder discusses climate change, genocide, and the ideology of Hitler.