Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports banning students’ cellphone use in schools. The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services chairs the commission behind a recently released a report ...

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?

Millions have been spent to catch plagiarism and AI with tools from education company Turnitin. Is the tech worth it?

The move will likely solidify the foundation’s outsized role in global health, particularly as the United States, the United ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The exploration of environmental DNA started in the 1980s with researchers studying microbes or microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the use of ...

The message was evidently referring to Carl Heneghan, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford. He was on Zoom that day, along with McLean and Edmunds and two other experts, to ...

The goal was to make use of another modern surveillance-and-investigatory tool called probabilistic genotyping — a sort of algorithmic comb that straightens out a tangle of uncertain genetic data.