Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. It’s 2017, and people are still debating whether or not women are intellectually inferior to men, and ...

Communicating science to the public can be hard. Climate change is the most notorious example, but the public debates around vaccinations and evolution have also exposed a lack of understanding of how ...

The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, meeting new teachers – and, from the view of many policymakers – promoting gains in science achievement. Scientific ...