What if the knowledge that could fuel the next scientific breakthrough has simply been forgotten in an old graph or table? Valuable scientific insights may already exist across decades of published ...

For decades, science educators have been encouraged to "stick to the science" and leave politics at the classroom door. But ...

Many in the scientific community believe that if the American public were more informed about the science behind climate change and energy issues, people would hold views that aligned more closely ...

Scholars have long debated the role knowledge about and understanding of science plays in shaping people’s views on science issues. The common supposition is that when ordinary people have different ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an ...

Climate data has a completeness problem. If you’re looking for ancient carbon dioxide measurements, ice core data can give you that. If you have an interest in prehistoric ecology, the fossil record ...

Candice Sudlovenick found support and encouragement as a youth in the Ikaarvik program. Now she helps strengthen ...

For years, educators have assumed that if we could only give students the right science knowledge in the right way, we’d improve both K-12 students’ understanding of science and, by extension, public ...