Leah Ceccarelli is a professor of communication and author of the book "On the Frontier of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation." She answered a few questions about the book ...

Soils store carbon, sustain ecosystems, and underpin global food and water systems. A new Frontiers in Science paper details how AI tools can help us adapt soils—and the systems they nurture—to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was bound to happen, and now it has. Scientists in the U.K. have asked for permission -- legal, regulatory permission from a ...

A fundamental component of the mission of the American Chemical Society Committee on Science (ComSci) is to “engage the global chemistry enterprise to build a better tomorrow by identifying new ...

Modern societies are still very much dependent on oil and gas resources for their smooth functioning. However, natural oil and gas resources are limited and non-renewable. In order to keep up with the ...

Climate change poses an existential threat to society. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water ...

Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the ...

The Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academia, and government labs to discuss pioneering and leading edge engineering ...

At the end of World War II, academic researchers had reason to feel uneasy about the approach proposed in Science, the Endless Frontier, observed Rafael Reif, president of MIT, in the opening session ...

Microplastics are now widely distributed throughout the environment—in water, in the air, in the soil and even inside living organisms, including marine life. However, most studies to date have ...