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It is rare for a single hospital death to become the subject of multiple-day stories in the major national newspapers and play on one evening television news program after another. [...]

AN ALARMING VIEW OF GLOBAL WARMING, reflecting the summaries of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was presented by Donald Kennedy in 'An unfortunate U-turn on carbon' [...]

The new administration's science budget, sketchily outlined in a request to Congress, brought March in like a lion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Although that is likely to [...]

The traveling American Ralph Waldo Emerson, on viewing the Natural History Cabinet at the Paris Jardin des Plantes in 1833, wrote of his bliss in seeing the specimens and scientific [...]

The new Editor-in-Chief, upon entry, has two choices: look back, or look forward. Wishing to have the best of both worlds, I select first one, then the other. The backward [...]

The political economy of science is a subject that did not need very much attention during the decades following World War II. We developed a wonderful system for doing science [...]

At Science, we tend to get excited about new discoveries that lift the veil a little on how things work, from cells to the universe. That puts our focus firmly [...]

Well, there wasn't much doubt about this year's winner. Unlike some past Breakthroughs, this one unfolded very much in the public eye, and the arguments that sometimes ensue when Science's [...]

If ever a phrase tripped lightly over the tongue, 'the hydrogen economy' does. It appeals to the futurist in all of us, and it sounds so simple: We currently have [...]

There is welcome news about an old problem. For years, we've been getting only part of the story on clinical drug trials. The successful ones get published and touted, but [...]

There is a growing public health crisis that is global in scope, and it isn't another emerging infectious disease. It concerns being overweight and the adverse health consequences of obesity, [...]

Americans have come to accept the role of politics in the appointment of certain kinds of public officials. Few of us are surprised, though some may be disappointed, when a [...]

Personal political convictions do not trump author's obligation to share experimental material. Science often finds itself intertwined with politics. Sometimes that is because science has important consequences for society and [...]