(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences ...

We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. There’s a scene in the movie “Oppenheimer” in which Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron and head of his ...

The International Relations Speaker Series on Friday featured political science and Pritzker Prof. Karen Alter, who spoke about defining backlash politics and emphasized the necessity of a more ...

Hidden away in an obscure notice in a federal register is a throwaway line that could rewrite human history. It states that San José State University holds human remains of an Ice Age individual from ...

Recent UI graduate Delaney Behning just completed her bachelor’s degree in political science and is ready to take her next steps into the field and her career. The University of Iowa has a prominent ...

Political science is the systematic study of political institutions, actors, and power dynamics across local, national, and international arenas. As a discipline, it combines theoretical frameworks ...