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Research by philosopher of science and Honorary Research Associate at Bangor University, Byron Hyde, looked at the role of transparency in fostering public trust in science. Hyde argues that, to find ...

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

Scientific advances are a key input to rising standards of living, health and the capacity of society to confront grand challenges, from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2,3. A deeper ...

Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...

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Nicholas A. Coles is a research scientist at Stanford University, California, USA, and the director of the Psychological Science Accelerator. Are some of science’s biggest questions simply ...

The confidence people place in science is frequently based not on what it really is, but on what people would like it to be. When I asked students at the beginning of the year how they would define ...

Instead of the Centers for Disease Control, imagine for a minute that Washington’s political pundits or even U.S. Senators and Representatives had been the ones in charge of setting our national ...

The content standards presented in this chapter outline what students should know, understand, and be able to do in natural science. The content standards are a complete set of outcomes for students; ...