The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Scientists have always been trained to do research. For 40 years, they’ve been asked to ensure people believe it. How’s it ...

Editors of 20 medical, scientific, and health journals have published a joint editorial in the Journal of Health ...

This week, I joined hundreds of National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff in signing a public letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya urging immediate action to protect academic freedom and scientific ...

Once upon a time, science communication was a niche hobby, reserved for the rare few who could translate lab jargon into something the public might understand. Carl Sagan made it look easy, but most ...

Alex Dainis is a science communicator and video producer creating content that makes science approachable, accessible, and fun. She began producing digital science education videos on YouTube in 2012 ...

M olly Edwards loved plants throughout childhood, eventually going on to study their development and evolution in college and later graduate school. She also developed a passion for the arts, ...

The new romantic comedy Fly me to the Moon tells the story of how, in the run up to the Apollo 11 mission, Nasa hired a high-flying marketing specialist to bolster public support. The history books ...

The person Albert Einstein most admired was Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Born the son of a blacksmith and lacking formal education, Faraday self-taught science while working at a bookbinding shop. His ...

A few years ago, I had a chance to bring Bill Nye into a story about the Great Lakes. He was running the Planetary Society — Carl Sagan’s old post — and had millions of science-hungry followers. My ...