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Science & Society

Do you know how your drinking water is treated?

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses drinking water quality in the United States and the latest research on water treatment technology.

Science & Society

Screen time to heal, and perhaps to harm

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the advances in virtual reality technology and how much time we spend on our computers and smartphones.

Science & Society

Waking up early to cover science’s biggest honor

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses how the Science News editors and reporters cover the Nobel Prizes each year.

Science & Society

Celebrating successes while examining failures

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses this year's 10 scientists to watch and the ups and downs of the scientific endeavor.

Science & Society

Building big experiments to study very little things

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses our behind the scenes look at the giant equipment used to study the smallest bits of matter.

Astronomy

To boldly go where no robot explorer has gone before

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the importance of robotic space missions for scientific research.

Science & Society

The trouble with water, be it too much or too little

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the future of water and global issues associated with water scarcity and rising sea levels.

Science & Society

What does fake news look like to you?

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the importance of being able to illustrate science visually.

Science & Society

In research, detours are a key part of discovery

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the scientific process and the often contradictory research about Alzheimer's disease.

Health & Medicine

Medical breakthroughs come with a human cost

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute muses on the risks many medical advances pose in their infancy.

Science & Society

So what do you know about Emmy Noether?

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses physicist Emmy Noether and women being underrepresented in science fields.

Science & Society

The power of great editors, their lessons and legacy

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the history and legacy of Science News editors.