Nation Topics - Science | The Nation

How powerful museums and private collectors act as stewards and looters of the world's cultural treasures.

The US economy rewarded the finance industry at the expense of our most creative problem-solvers. We need an innovation revival to grow our way back to health.

Cell biologist Kenneth Miller discusses the dangers of politicized science.

Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.

The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat.

State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.

How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.

As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.

The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.

A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.