AT one time or another, just about every parent has plopped a kid in front of the television to watch cartoons while Mom or Dad goes to make dinner or take care of some other household chore. A new ...

Scientists often struggle to explain their research to nonscientists, whether it’s at a cocktail party, on an airplane, or when speaking to a journalist. For Julie Rorrer, the struggle began with a ...

Are you funny? Can you draw? Do you like science? Do you hate it when antiscience nimrods interfere with it? Prove it. Go to Science Idol, submit your cartoon about political intereference with ...