The 2012 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair opened in Pittsburgh on May 13, with more than 1,500 high school students attending the weeklong competition.

MADISON, Wis. — The arc of science has faced roadblocks for centuries, but the pattern of denying the weight of evidence has taken on new virulence recently. Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well-established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community. Researchers and science writers tasked with reporting on these issues gathered April 23–24 at the University of Wisconsin at a meeting titled “Science Writing in the Age of Denial.�...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — “I think I’m not supposed to say ‘got whacked.’ Am I allowed to say ‘got whacked?’” asked John Grunsfeld, NASA associate administrator for science, while considering how to describe the cuts dealt to planetary sciences in President Obama’s proposed 2013 NASA budget. It’s no secret that planetary sciences got hit badly, cut by more than $300 million (more than 20%) from the year before. Funds are running kind of like water on present-day Mars — one of the hardest-hit exploration programs — seeping, not flowing, and leaving planetary scientists pa...

While compelling, findings lack scientific rigor.

Scientists film 58 kinds of mobile cells to study movement — and to have a little fun.

Whole-genome sequencing points to microbial killers.

 LINDAU, Germany — Top-notch scientists are overtaking Lindau, a small Bavarian village on Lake Constance. Situated near borders with Switzerland and Austria, Lindau used to be part of an important European trade route. These days, the village is brokering a new kind of trade — an exchange of scientific ideas — by hosting the 61st Lindau meeting of Nobel Laureates from June 26 to July 1. The Lindau meetings bring Nobel laureates and young researchers together to discuss topics that have ranged in recent years from climate change and energy to the latest developments in physics. ...

Laureates share unconventional wisdom with young investigators at Intel ISEF 2011.