The Carbon Clock is Ticking: Children Will Live the Future that Burning Fossil Fuels is Setting on Fire offers a rapidly closing window of opportunity to change the future now. It is important that we respond to the climate crisis by prioritizing the support of children and young people who will be most affected by the rising temperatures and extreme weather events that will make life difficult for them living on a much hotter and less hospitable planet.
Read MoreNow, colleagues and I have published a study in the journal Scientific Reports which suggests that a dose of nature of just two hours a week is associated with better health and psychological wellbeing, a figure that applies to every demographic we could think of (at least in England).
Read MoreAs tempting as it is to think that different disciplines develop their own special language as a means of keeping others out of their domain - lawyers, we are looking at you - the reasons are not usually malevolent. Disciplines use language in ways that are a reflection of the way they see the world.
Read More"I’m A Scientist. This Is What I’ll Fight For" by Dr. Jonathan Foley was originally published as part of a collection of essays in the book, “United We Stand: Essays On Protest And Resistance” (Garn 2017). We are featuring select essays from the book and offering the entire collection as a FREE EBOOK DOWNLOAD.
Read MoreScience is part of the wonderful tapestry of human culture, intertwined with things like art, music, theater, film and even religion. These elements of our culture help us understand and celebrate our place in the universe.
Read MoreI try to make sense of why science’s imaginative and creative core is so hidden, and how to bring it into the light.
Read MoreNew study demonstrates the benefits of developing new ideas about what knowledge and action are and how they relate to each other
Read MoreAll of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men. That’s a return to business as usual, after biochemical engineer Frances Arnold won in 2018, for chemistry, and Donna Strickland received the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics.
Read MoreActive learning is not a specifically defined teaching technique. Rather, it’s a spectrum of instructional approaches, all of which involve students actively participating in lessons.
Read MoreMarch for Science New York City kicks off on May 4th, 2019. Open access of scientific information to the general public, use of science for the common good and in the preservation of an informed democracy, protection of human and environmental rights.
Read MoreWomen remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014.
Read MoreDemocracy and social progress die without science and fact-based knowledge. Science and facts are the foundational basis for rational and logical disputation and the possibility of reaching some truths.
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