Science has an extraordinary power to transform our understanding of reality. From the smallest subatomic particles to the vast expanse of the cosmos, groundbreaking theories have repeatedly shattered ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...

The proponents of the idea of a global climate crisis are fond of saying that when it comes to climate change, “the science is settled.” But in fact that is just a way of telling their opposition to ...

Across much of the northern hemisphere, extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation have increased in ...

The philosopher Karl Popper pointed out that most early practition­­ers of science were justificationists. They didn’t just seek out any old knowledge; they were on the hunt for justified knowledge.

"The Big Bang Theory" employed a scientist as a consultant so the science was accurate, but the professor once pitched a joke that made it to air.

A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness research community. It claims that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something ...

Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics' Post-Baccalaureate/Graduate Certificate in Computer Science Theory & Practice provides a technical basis for the study of computer science, both ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.