Science

"The worst thing is we would create millions of new jobs; we would transition to cleaner energy ... we would have cleaner air, which would mean we have less hospitalization for children [with] asthma and people with particulates causing cancer; and we would have greater energy security for everybody and independence as a result. That's the worst that could happen," Secretary of State John Kerry said. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Being wrong on climate science sounds good to John Kerry

Spencer Brown · May 22, 2014 6:18 pm

Kerry: If We’re Wrong on Climate Change, ‘What’s the Worst That Can Happen?’

Kerry: If We’re Wrong on Climate Change, ‘What’s the Worst That Can Happen?’

Jeryl Bier · May 20, 2014 2:38 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 15, 2014, the green sea turtle, named "Hofesh," the Hebrew word for "freedom," is fitted with a prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel. The badly injured sea turtle's prospects are looking up - thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli team designs prosthetic fin to save turtle

alon-bernstein · May 17, 2014 8:31 pm

Vice President Joe Biden on Friday emphasized the importance of a good education â specifically, a STEM education.

VIDEO: Joe Biden praises STEM education

Lisa Ruhl · May 16, 2014 4:00 am

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot shrinking before our eyes

Seth Borenstein · May 15, 2014 7:48 pm

French Foreign Minister: ‘500 Days to Avoid Climate Chaos’

French Foreign Minister: ‘500 Days to Avoid Climate Chaos’

Jeryl Bier · May 14, 2014 10:29 am

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Say ‘no’ to bad science

Mona Charen · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

‘Do We Need Feminist Sciences?’

‘Do We Need Feminist Sciences?’

Claudia Anderson · May 5, 2014 2:55 pm

John Holdren makes a few remarks at a Celebration Of Carl Sagan at the Library of Congress on November 12, 2013 in Washington. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Obama’s chief science adviser must explain secret emails

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

This combination of Dec. 10, 2013, left, and March 11, 2014 photos provided by NASA shows a large iceberg separating from the Pine Island Glacier and traveling across Pine Island Bay in Antarctica. Scientists are watching the iceberg, which is bigger than the island of Guam, as it slowly moves away from the glacier, bottom right in December, upper left center in March. NASA scientist Kelly Brunt said it is more a wonder than a worry and is not a threat to shipping or sea level rise. (AP Photo/NASA)

Scientists watch enormous Antarctic iceberg drift

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 6:52 pm

Scientists Andrew Ghio, Jon Sobus, Joachim Pleil and Michael Madden, with laboratory director Wayne Cascio, administered a mix of diesel and particulate matter to 41 people as part of an Environmental Protection Agency study. (Photo: Thinkstock)

EPA’s secret gas chamber experiments: A deceitful failure

Ron Arnold · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

This photo taken Nov. 25, 2013 shows microbiologist Dr. Molly Freeman pulling Listeria bacteria from a tube to be tested for its DNA fingerprinting in a foodborne disease outbreak lab at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The nation's disease detectives are beginning a program to try to outsmart outbreaks by routinely decoding the DNA of deadly bacteria and viruses. The initial target: Listeria, a kind of bacteria that's the third-leading cause of death from food poisoning, and one that's especially dangerous to pregnant women. Already, the technology has helped to solve a small listeria outbreak that killed one person in California and sickened seven others in Maryland.(AP Photo/David Goldman)

Experts decode germs’ DNA to fight food poisoning

Lauran Neergaard · April 7, 2014 6:39 am