From pathogen research to geoengineering and AI, consequential science is accelerating. Whose hands are on the wheel?

Experiments that make viruses more virulent or contagious present significant risks. Are those risks worth the rewards?

Farmers and health experts say it’s complicated. RFK Jr.’s milk adviser, Mark McAfee, says he’s up for the challenge.

In the traditional lingo of software engineers, these systems would be called “brittle.” ...

Canada intends to shut down open-net-pen salmon farming by 2029. But removing infrastructure is challenging and costly.

Pyrrhotite causes cracks in concrete. But research on how widespread the issue might be has only scratched the surface.

The idea for nuclear weapons may have first appeared in a 1914 science fiction novel called “The World Set Free,” by H.G.

“We’re basically flying blind on 5G,” said Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the ...

A cadre of health business leaders and nonmainstream doctors are influencing the next President's health policy.

The darkest moment in Courtney Barrows McKeown’s path to recovery came when she considered driving over a bridge. As she tells it, she had been drinking from a bottle of wine and contending with ...