The power of words Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which begins with a form of sci-fi, led to the ban on DDT in agriculture, showing how sci-fi can influence real-world science. (Courtesy: ...

The long-anticipated CDC guidance on schools was released on February 12. This is the latest event in what has been, up to this point, among the most politically charged and scientifically contested ...

About two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, while 28% say it has had an equal mix of positive and negative effects and just 7% say it has had a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Over the past 25 years, a Canadian medical journal has been publishing fictional clinical case reports but framing them as real cases. Through the lens of Ig Nobel prizes, Upasana Sarraju investigates ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Toss Gascoigne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

Curricular Outcome: Ability to function in a multidisciplinary setting. The Science Technology and Society requirement (formerly the Multidisciplinary requirement) is met by completion of an approved ...

The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. According to a Q and A webpage ...