From our earliest days, the pursuit of knowledge in this country was never just about learning—it was a civic act.

Scientific Knowledge Is Made To Be Used. ByChad Orzel, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture.

A scientific revolution, though, involves more than simply stating, “this old thing is wrong!” That's simply the very first step. It may be a necessary part of a revolution, but it's woefully ...

PHYSICS: Learning and Scientific Reasoning Science, 323 (5914), 586-587 DOI: 10.1126/science.1167740 More on education: When learning maths, abstract symbols work better than real-world examples ...

Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a ...

But there is another useful way to think about the value of scientific knowledge, which is as a public good. The public goods characteristic of ideas and knowledge – that they are freely available to ...

The survey also asks about basic scientific knowledge in a series of true-false questions. Most Americans (77%) correctly say it is true that the continents have been moving for millions of years and ...

Higher levels of science knowledge are often seen as important characteristics for individuals, communities and the citizenry as a whole. 8. As a practical matter, science knowledge can help ...

The democratization of scientific knowledge must remain the highest goal in funding and setting priorities for our schools. I say this as the director of San Francisco’s Exploratorium, ...

For a lot of scientific topics, there's a big gap between what scientists understand and what the public thinks it knows. For a number of these topics—climate change and evolution are prominent ...

We should take the Trump administration’s cuts to science funding seriously, writes Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang, because scientific knowledge is more fragile than we think.