On a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion cosponsored by Globe Ideas about how to strengthen science, democracy, and ...

Left to right: Jace Kuske, Sabrina Mederos, and John Paulus from the Bales Lab viewing brains on a microscope slide to study the biology behind love (called "pair bonding" in non-human animals). (Evan ...

• Only 57% of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, down from 73% before the pandemic. Only 45% think scientists are good communicators. • Focus groups before Brexit found ...

Cutting funding to the government agencies, like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; ...