Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ryan Summers, University of North Dakota (THE CONVERSATION) Scientific theory has had ...

Washington (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order this Wednesday prohibiting the use of federal funds in schools that teach what he considers “critical race theory” and other ...

The origin of consciousness has teased the minds of philosophers and scientists for centuries. In the last decade, neuroscientists have begun to piece together its neural underpinnings—that is, how ...

A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. Science routinely puts ...

In case of positive evaluation at the end of the fixed-term period of 4 years, the position will be changed to a permanent position. Do you enjoy working with young people, are you curious, and do you ...

Online conspiracy theories are often taken to be a serious problem and critical challenge to democracy. Indeed, so important is the perceived problem that the education minister of the new UK ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...