Twenty years ago, you couldn’t pick up a newspaper without reading something about AIDS and HIV. I wrote my share of them. These days, almost nothing. We assume that the disease has been beaten. There are people who walk around with an HIV infection who may never get full-blown AIDS, and there are people with [...]

Are you sick of politicians making decisions based on their irrational beliefs and not on science. Well, so are scientists. A group of ‘em recently took a crash course on electoral politics. The goal? Running for office.
Science has become a part of every major issue of modern life, said neurologist Alan Leshner, president of the [...]