In a recent study published in PLoS Biology, researchers investigated whether individuals with extreme attitudes, negative or positive, show a greater likelihood of believing that they understand ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in anti-science attitudes, a new review suggests. But ...

Nature Education (the folks who brought you Scitable) recently released a position paper on science and education and drew some powerful conclusions. EntitledTime to Decide: The Ambivalence of the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. We care about gender equity among Doctor Who’s scientist characters, and the cultural significance of casting Jodie Whittaker as the ...

Brazil’s researchers have a battle on their hands. The country has the world’s third-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with more than 300,000 infections and 20,000 deaths. Scientists there ...

Baltimore, MD--A first-of-its-kind study on almost 20,000 K-12 underrepresented public school students shows that Project BioEYES, based at Carnegie's Department of Embryology, is effective at ...

(Phys.org)—Social contagion describes the propagation of beliefs, evaluations and attitudes through a network of people. It's well understood that political beliefs, emotional attitudes and opinions ...

Why do some people hold anti-science beliefs? Photo editing by Steve Kelly; image credit: Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images. Researchers investigated the reasons behind why some people overlook scientific ...

Scientists and science fans love to discuss the science in Doctor Who. We’re interested in how its theories and gadgets stack up against real science and technology (really, really interested). We ...