Opinion

Too many people are suffering from long COVID and other postviral syndromes. Anthony Fauci says we need to step up funding and research now

As social media more frequently exposes people to brutality and untruths, we need to treat it like a consumer product, and that means product safety regulations

Food insecurity saps the health of people and economies worldwide. Addressing it would pay dividends

We can’t put a price on a healthy biosphere. We must instead reorient our economy into one that values the living world

Images of sari-wearing space scientists in India remind us that research is global and cultural dress should be welcome in the workplace

We can account for the evolution of consciousness only if we crack the philosophy, as well as the physics, of the brain

Evolutionary biology offers warnings, and tips, for surviving the advent of artificial intelligence

Rigorous standards are required to scale hydrogen as a clean energy solution; otherwise, it will be a costly, polluting diversion

It’s not just nukes: the power at the heart of the Godzilla franchise is our awareness of the global consequences of human folly

Every happy country is not alike

Inequality ensures that feared financial losses moving away from fossil fuels will fall most heavily on the wealthy, and not on the poor and middle class

Physicians need to be aware of how their choice of words and patient labels affect patients