SCIENCE is under assault. In the US and throughout the world, rhetoric about evolution, stem cells, global warming and other controversial and cutting-edge technologies often transcends legitimate ...

Science and its supporters, asserts bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe, are in dire need of their own emblem — a “symbolic unifier” that could be to science what Ichthys is to Christianity. What symbol could ...

This essay is part of Demystifying the Mind, a special report on the new science of consciousness. The next installments will appear in the February 25 and March 10 issues of Science News. When ...

In a feat of chemistry imitating art, researchers have created a molecular version of a Borromean knot, an attractive pattern of three interlocking rings that commonly adorned Viking art and ...

The National Academy of Sciences added a “foreign associate” to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was worthy of the honor. Besides a monster string of ...

Heaps of twisted metal and rubble still litter the ground outside demolished buildings with blown-out windows, collapsed ceilings and blackened walls that housed some of Israel’s top scientific ...

In 1928, Hugo Gernsback sponsored a contest to devise a symbol for sf, launching the creation of visual definitions of sf. The symbols he presented-an eye, gears driving a pen-suggest that sf means a ...

A food packaging symbol for comparing the effect of different foods on blood sugar was launched in Australia yesterday. The Glycemic Index (GI) Symbol is designed to tell shoppers at a glance the GI ...

A classic symbol of winter’s chill, rows of icicles hanging dramatically off roofs and trees show off the simple artistry of nature. But there’s more to them than their fleeting beauty: Icicles are ...

The Roper Mountain Science Center is having a fundraising campaign to raise the $130,000 needed to fully restore the star’s ...