The power of words Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which begins with a form of sci-fi, led to the ban on DDT in agriculture, showing how sci-fi can influence real-world science. (Courtesy: ...

Scientists have made many great discoveries during the past 100 years, but those discoveries have affected society in complex and sometimes paradoxical ways. For example, science and technology helped ...

Protect the environment (and our future). Tomorrow needs stewards of the environment. Sustainability science and society majors study the interactions between social, environmental, and economic ...

Science and society is an interdepartmental teaching program that offers students throughout the campus the opportunity to discover the connections that link the social, biological and physical ...

About two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, while 28% say it has had an equal mix of positive and negative effects and just 7% say it has had a ...

The general public survey was conducted August 15-25, 2014, by landline and cellular telephone, among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 adults. The survey tracks public attitudes about ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Toss Gascoigne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

The long-anticipated CDC guidance on schools was released on February 12. This is the latest event in what has been, up to this point, among the most politically charged and scientifically contested ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

[CLIP: Voices read hate mail that Christie Aschwanden has received: “You should not write. You are no scientist. You are a foolish person.” “Your article could cause new breast cancer deaths.” “Get ...

College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, which offers majors including computer science, data science and statistics.