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?

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

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

Fusion technology is a long way from powering a grid — if it ever will. Dozens of fusion startups have launched anyway.

James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the wall and shower enclosure. Unable to get up because of his size, and too ...

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 ...

What are the odds of an asteroid of dangerous dimensions striking the planet? If you wait long enough, it’s 100 percent. And they don’t even have to be especially gargantuan to cause widespread harm: ...

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 ...