According to the committee report, concepts related to race, gender, societal status, as well as social and environmental ...

Confidence in scientific institutions mostly survived the first Trump administration. What will happen to it now?

The billionaire's new job raises tricky First Amendment questions, with implications for public health, says Ari Cohn.

Researchers are sprinting to compile their own datasets and DIY sites. Lawmakers aren't doing much to reverse course.

In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In South Dakota, too, official ...

In 1989, a pair of chemists boasted at having achieved fusion — that is, harnessing the same type of energy that’s produced by the sun — in room-temperature water. The infamous “cold fusion” ...

India extracts more groundwater than any other country worldwide, even more than the U.S. and China combined. In 2024, the country drew nearly 65 trillion gallons of water from its aquifers. A major ...

As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown quickly and in huge quantities. Onyeaka wondered ...