Scientific innovations, discoveries, and issues are changing our understanding of the cosmos, our planet, our environment, food production and health. To promote research in the public interest and to ensure beneficial public policy, today's global citizens need science literacy.
What's so important about an atmosphere? Find out here.
Many of the most important advances in scientific understanding were initially rejected or ignored.
In an era of global science, other nations are increasing their science budgets. Why aren't we?
Paradoxical objects that underscore the mystery of the universe, black holes seem the ultimate destructive force, but may be essential to the stability of galaxies...
Viruses, prions, bacteriophages ... all behave like living organisms but are not quite alive...
An important critique of geoengineering, including cautions about misinformation
Geologists did not understand that massive meteorites could vaporize on impact
From the beginning of the universe to complex life: an explanation of the development of the cosmos
From the Big Bang to parallel universes...
Molecules in meteorites met with an optimal chemical environment on Earth
How the unprecedented loss of biodiversity impacts human health
Clouds and the particles they contain are essential information for climate science. Here's how scientists gather and decipher that information.
An important critique of geoengineering, including cautions about misinformation
The real dangers of psychotropic drugs that are routinely prescribed for children
Visual representation is essential for the communication of science concepts and data
The cooling systems of power plants use an enormous percentage of our diminishing freshwater supply. What's the solution?
Irrefutable evidence for why we should --and can-- transition to renewable energy without delay
A world authority on how environmental toxins affect brain development brings the evidence to the general public in this book.
A distinguished scientist who has worked for decades to implement sound environment and climate policies
