The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case to determine whether President Donald Trump's global tariffs are legal. When U.S. Supreme Court justices write opinions, they mostly talk about the ...

Every spring semester, a University of Minnesota course called Science Court is taught by Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics professor Dr. Ellad Tadmor with the goal being for students to collect ...

In 2022, Wellcome Connecting Science, a genomic science program funded by the Wellcome Trust, organized a citizens’ jury to ask whether the U.K. government should allow scientists to edit the DNA of ...

As courts bash sound science and generate questionable decisions, an old cry for constituting “science courts” has been revived. Ethical dilemmas created by scientific advances also cry for resolution ...

Last fall, Robert Redford (yes, that Robert Redford) took to the pages of USA Today to offer a dire warning of the dystopian future awaiting us if the Supreme Court reined in the Clean Water Act in ...

These are tumultuous times for the Supreme Court. Since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Court in October 2020, the justices have issued a series of unprecedented decisions that have reshaped ...

In his State of the Union Address, President Obama invited “anybody [who] wants to dispute the science around climate change . . . to have at it.” The Supreme Court’s response? Thank you, Mr.