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How does Science News cover controversial aspects of science? We focus on data and facts, and we note when there are limitations or caveats in research findings.

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

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Welcome to Part 2 of things we were told were true but are not…Or vice-versa.In all these years, you’ve heard the myths and repeated the facts, but how many of them have you actually questioned?From ...