Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side down or how ducks stay dry. But these quirky experiments often lead to ...

Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...