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

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

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

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

The nature writer Robert Macfarlane probes some profound moral and environmental questions in “Is a River Alive?" ...

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

Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...

In April 2020, David Zweig went out with his daughter to meet another parent and child, while dutifully remaining 6 feet apart to follow Covid guidelines. The little group cycled along a dirt trail ...

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...