An 11-question quiz that tests science literacy — some would say very basic science literacy — is on my mind this week. The quiz, developed by Jon Miller, now director of the International Center for ...

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Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

Jonathan Garlick receives funding and provides histology and scientific consulting services for Organogenesis Inc and HSRL Inc. These companies and my services are not related to the content of the ...

We make it a point to know the basics about some things. American history, say: thirteen colonies; manifest destiny, blah, blah, blah. Ditto sports: Babe Ruth, baseball; Magic Johnson, basketball.

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...

Microsoft makes Windows, Word and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses. The sensors enable aerial drones to track endangered ...

Scientists who carry out basic research sometimes find themselves unexpectedly caught up in a web of vitriolic public attacks by politicians pretending to expose foolish, dollar-wasting projects.

The Dr Emmanuel Attah Kumah Amponsah, who is a Senior Lecturer and a head of Department of Accounting, Banking and Finance at the Ghana Communication Technology University, Accra, sponsored Maths and ...