Opinion

Hvaldi, a juvenile beluga whale likely used as a Russian spy, has become so accustomed to human interaction that he’s putting himself in danger and urgently needs our help

A “more is merrier” approach to making computer chips would create the vibrant and fast breakthroughs that America needs to succeed

Advanced tools for tracking people’s eye movements and facial expressions can be used to design better places

Human intelligence may be just a brief phase before machines take over. That may answer where the aliens are hiding

Presidential contender Ron DeSantis has used governmental power in Florida to restrict access to health and education, promoting an intolerant and harmful agenda

Artificial intelligence algorithms will soon reach a point of rapid self-improvement that threatens our ability to control them and poses great potential risk to humanity

As with climate change, adverse changes in democratic practices require societal adaptation to avoid the worst scenarios

After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year

World Biodiversity Day reminds us that the profound crises we confront are just different sides of the same coin

The U.S. should implement the same reforms to its high court that it has called for in other nations, a judicial reform scholar suggests

After years of downtime for upgrades, the world’s premier gravitational-wave observatories are coming back online with big hopes for transformative discoveries

Ovarian cancer is hard to detect and usually deadly. Preemptively removing fallopian tubes during other abdominal surgeries could save hundreds of thousands of lives