Opinion

Meat eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists

Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today

The answer to the question of how many sexes exist differs depending on the context

While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived hate mail to reporters shows that even in the 1950s—supposedly the height of public trust in journalism—some Americans always despised the press

The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons

Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate many of the unvaccinated this fall

Esports are booming on college campuses, and safe participation in gaming is a new Title IX challenge. Schools should get ahead of the threat of harassment now

Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it

After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

Restoring habitats to how they were centuries ago, not years ago, could mean more successful conservation efforts

Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as tennis balls, and instead more like waves pushing through water

Science plays an enormous unseen role in keeping international avenues of contact open, even when political doors slam shut. We need to keep those channels open with China