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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. An opinion piece in the Financial Times suggested that the public health world might look back on the ...

The phrase Pillars of Creation became popular in 1995 when it was used to describe a striking deep space photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are enormous formations of ...

One of the goals of the experiment was to see if such an approach might eventually show a way to ease global warming. In a statement to the media on June 5, the researchers — a team from the ...

Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, health care entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice. “First 100 days,” said Means, a former consultant to Big Pharma who ...