Until half a billion years ago, life on Earth was slow. The seas were home to single-celled microbes and largely stationary soft-bodied creatures. But at the dawn of the Cambrian era, some 540 million ...

A scientific approach, referring to data and analysis, is important in testing the effectiveness of flood control measures before they are implemented, said Project Noah (Nationwide Operational ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

Concerns about living in a “post-truth” society – where evidence struggles to compete with misinformation, ideology and emotion – are now familiar. From vaccine hesitancy to climate change denial, ...

Nathan E. Sanders is an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Bruce Schneier is a lecturer in public policy at the ...