Opinion

A former space agency official argues that cutting a robotic explorer pulls the scientific teeth from the Artemis program

The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use of the term species

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement and Jim Crow is a dishonest ruse

Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control

Despite progress, the long shadow of racial violence continues to undermine economic opportunities for African Americans today

The Olympics are a sustainability nightmare, and Paris, despite its efforts, is no exception

The current presidential race has ensured that age will be a key and likely fraught consideration in future elections. Can science help determine how old is too old for a candidate before politics does?

Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results

Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us

We can and should look harder for evidence of alien visitors to our solar system

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction