New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don ...

Taken together, Trump’s second-term science policy reflects several emerging trends in U.S. research policy: the public’s ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...

UC Berkeley administrators have violated Kao’s academic freedom and the First Amendment in their shameful punishment of him for his free speech.

In a society where real liberal education and critical thinking are in rapid decline, and intellectual posturing and political oversimplifications abound, there is no better time for a quest for ...

Public weariness has grown over predictions of climate doom, some of which have been premature or inaccurate. Historically, dire warnings about overpopulation and oil scarcity did not materialize due ...

Political scientists and Clinton County political leaders give their insight into Bruce Blakeman throwing his hat in the race ...

Michael R. Bloomberg has believed mayors have plenty to teach each other since he was mayor of New York City and supported ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in ...

Tufts’ current and former political science professors Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser and Deborah J. Schildkraut published ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...