While dystopian futures are great science fiction, scientific facts actually support optimism. Imagining worst-case scenarios is human nature; people swap scary stories around campfires that ...

Historically, biological reality included the existence of two immutable sexes, the humanity of a late-term fetus, and that childbirth was exclusive to one sex.

We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

Scientific information is complicated and full of caveats and clarifications. This, of course, absolutely ruins the shareability of even the most interesting facts and discoveries. So, what’s an ...

When Does A Theory Become A Fact? Does it ever? We jump into the thorny issue feet first to investigate when, if ever, “theories” become “facts” and according to whom.

The title of Keith Cooper’s “Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact” echoes that of Amazing Stories, a magazine founded in the 1920s that was the first to be devoted to ...

Sidebar: Just Printing Results Doesn't Validate Them Sidebar: Discouraging Hypotheses Slows Progress What is a scientific fact? How are such facts established? Who are the judges, the referees, the ...

Sen. Daniel Emrich said he didn’t think the bill would prohibit the teaching of scientific theories, which are the basis of explaining science, but those who spoke against it said ...

Also, many of the scientific facts recognized in this bill started as theories, theories that will not be taught if bill 235 were to pass.” ...

A Sodom and Gomorrah Story Shows Scientific Facts Aren’t Settled by Public Opinion Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its ...

Subjectively picking and choosing which data to use to support an explanation, as House Speaker Johnson has done, is not just bad science, it's not science at all.