Undark

For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear.

Views differ on what, exactly, is the best way for scientists to advocate for societal action against climate change.

The idea that language shapes our ability to think fell out of favor in the 1960s, but new tools have some researchers revisiting the concept.

They aren’t ‘sexy, high-tech science,’ but fields like entomology and ornithology are gaining popularity at places like Harvard and Berkeley.

Social media giants are hoping artificial intelligence and deep machine learning can help block shared gore and violence. They have a long way to go.

There is a word for on-stage discussions populated exclusively by men: They’re called “manels,” and they’ve become far too familiar.

When the objective eye of science is trained on the question of animal subjectivity, the evidence is always indirect and inevitably in dispute.

True believers are having their bodies preserved in hopes that future technology will allow them to live again. A new book asks where it will all end.

Can parasitic worms, or helminths, help to address autoimmune disorders? Scientists (and self-experimenters like me) are trying to find out.