Under Rapoport's supervision, the committee had conducted a landmark questionnaire study relating to science ethics. The questionnaire was sent to 5,000 AAAS members and drew 2,500 responses.

A new study explains why people still search for Bigfoot. It shows how simple tools, patience, and curiosity keep the mystery ...

For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within metals themselves. While their methods never panned out, those of modern ...

Do modern scientists really pay inadequate attention to the X-Files? That's what Deborah Blum suggests (Forum, Oct 1, It appears modern science is afraid to explore ghosts). While supernatural claims ...

In Miller's labs, which are part of the department of pharmacology and physiological sciences, playful, barbed comments are common among British postdoctoral fellows Simon Gibbons and David Bleakman ...

On July 3, 1945, 10 German scientists who had worked on Germany’s nuclear program were interned by the Allies at a country mansion called Farm Hall, in Godmanchester, England, about 20 miles northwest ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur ...

Prominent scientists state their views. Is Christianity a friend or foe of science? Has science discredited miracles? This panel enlists three scientists in a discussion of science-and-faith concerns.

In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science. Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama ...

If “art for art’s sake” is a desirable slogan, why not “science for science’s sake”? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces’ research grants or a corporation’s search for ...