I want to commend Richard N. Zare on his excellent editorial, “The Power of the Question” (C&EN, July 14, page 3). He raises the issue of how science is really done. As part of that process of ...

Veruschka Pandey's Type 1 Diabetes research examined healthcare challenges and informed recommendations that contributed to ...

In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

Educators need evidence drawn from research to help them implement and justify inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning science. Many science teachers, for example, question why they should ...

The rules of science have never been set in stone, but its conventions are neatly summed up in the motto of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, which encapsulates the spirit of ...

How do you get students to ask inquiry questions that lead to investigations? Do some of the ideas about inquiry seem idealistic? Do most students enter class with all sorts of questions? Is this ...