Vannevar Bush’s vision for independent federal funding of basic research, outlined in his 1945 report, led to the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF). However, under Trump, NSF faced political capture, with funding decisions influenced by party agendas, undermining its mission to promote unfettered scientific inquiry. This shift endangers both science and democracy.
In 2007, the Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, decided that the EPA must fulfill its authority. It must regulate tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases. These gases cause, or contribute to, air pollution. The Clean Air Act authorizes the Environmental Protection...
For those of you cleaning out closets, desks and garages, you might find this story interesting. I found a manuscript that was “out of sight, out of mind” for 40 years. It was a marvelous discovery.
Figure 1. Carl Sagan and the Universe. Copyright sillyrabbitmythsare4kids, Creative Commons Science has been prominent in the media recently. Stories and programs including the Bill Nye-Ken Ham "debate" on origins, anti-science legislation in Wyoming...
This is Part One of Bill Moyers' interview with astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium, at the American Museum of Natural History. In the interviews with Moyers, Dr. Tyson explores the nature of an expanding universe,...
Latest Story In a report published in Nature Geoscience, a scientific team studying rocks in Australia, used Australian zircons in the Jack Hills that are embedded in the rocks to decide the age and history of these rocks. They found evidence that the Earth's crust...
