Last week, we met the Presocratics: despite having by any reasonable standard invented science in Europe, these thinkers are lumped together today as simply “not Socrates.” So who was this smarty ...

Do you ever wonder how academic research gets transformed into policy? Or how governments determine their approaches to climate change, genetically-engineered crops and cloning? This spring, “ENCS 691 ...

Five years ago, as local newsrooms shrunk and specialty reporters became fewer, a nonpartisan, free service launched to help those who remained. SciLine, based at the American Association for the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Area seventh-grade girls will get a crash course in making milk out of plastic, isolating DNA and becoming a medical detective among more at Washburn’s Women in Science Day.

Earlier this month, Organic Geochemistry Laboratory manager Lennart van Maldegem posed a question to a group of eighth graders from behind a table jumbled with jars of candy, food coloring and ...

From misused graphs to misunderstood studies, this is your crash course in how science gets twisted—from the lab to the headlines, and sometimes all the way to policy.