The power of words Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which begins with a form of sci-fi, led to the ban on DDT in agriculture, showing how sci-fi can influence real-world science. (Courtesy: ...

Scientists have made many great discoveries during the past 100 years, but those discoveries have affected society in complex and sometimes paradoxical ways. For example, science and technology helped ...

Protect the environment (and our future). Tomorrow needs stewards of the environment. Sustainability science and society majors study the interactions between social, environmental, and economic ...

Science and society is an interdepartmental teaching program that offers students throughout the campus the opportunity to discover the connections that link the social, biological and physical ...

An elaboration of the findings in the AAAS member survey Scientific innovations are deeply embedded in national life — in the economy, in core policy choices about how people care for themselves and ...

About two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, while 28% say it has had an equal mix of positive and negative effects and just 7% say it has had a ...

[CLIP: Voices read hate mail that Christie Aschwanden has received: “You should not write. You are no scientist. You are a foolish person.” “Your article could cause new breast cancer deaths.” “Get ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Toss Gascoigne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

The long-anticipated CDC guidance on schools was released on February 12. This is the latest event in what has been, up to this point, among the most politically charged and scientifically contested ...

Curricular Outcome: Ability to function in a multidisciplinary setting. The Science Technology and Society requirement (formerly the Multidisciplinary requirement) is met by completion of an approved ...