We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

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You know that feeling when someone tells you something so wild, so ridiculously unexpected, that you have to double-check if it’s actually true? That’s this list. These aren’t TikTok myths or ...

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The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

In a new communications landscape that feasts on polarization, the science community needs to rethink how it engages society in scientific discovery, controversy and policy. Instead, the science ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. – Just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation, a recent study indicates. In an experiment, 152 college students who had been exposed to misinformation read one of two ...

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You would think that in this day and age, with the collective knowledge of humankind easily accessible via the internet, ...