The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.

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About six-in-ten Americans say countries around the world, including the U.S., will not do enough to avoid the worst effects ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The US National Science Foundation is planning to remove hundreds of ocean monitoring instruments from four sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Scientists use data from the observational network ...

Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

Whether or not God exists “is not just one question among others — it is the question,” says one author of a newly translated book about the interplay between science and faith. “It asks whether we ...

The rare virus has a high fatality rate and can spread through the air, research shows, though it is easier to contain than ...

People are too pessimistic about how others will respond when they reach out to connect with them.