In a recent study published in PLoS Biology, researchers investigated whether individuals with extreme attitudes, negative or positive, show a greater likelihood of believing that they understand ...

Key points In a large, nationally representative U.S. sample, political conservatism was the most robust and stable predictor of anti-scientific attitudes. Conservative respondents were more likely to ...

Investigation into the Current Situation of Primary School Students’ Scientific Literacy and Dilemma This study investigates the current situation of primary school students’ scientific literacy ...

The letter by Alfred E. Harper1 on the anti-scientific attitudes and superstition that persists among the general public and politicians was juxtaposed on my desk with a fascinating article in my ...

Rachel Feltman: There’s been a lot of hype around artificial intelligence lately. Some companies want us to believe that machine learning is powerful enough to practically tell the future. But what ...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is seeking to retract six scientific studies and correct 31 others that were published by the institute’s top researchers, ...

Around 25 per cent of people agree with or feel neutral about the legal and moral acceptability of viewing, sharing, creating ...