Opinion

Hints of life on distant worlds will come from signals pioneered by NASA’s jumbo space telescope

Much of the open-source intelligence (OSINT) community ignores ethical questions and the safety risks of reporting discoveries from the war in Ukraine

New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work

A future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment

Hidden beneath the surface of the treasured strawberry is a unique branch of the evolutionary tree, where eight sets of chromosomes are better than two

Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man

NASA is again sending people to the moon. The agency must revamp its safety reporting procedures to protect everyone involved

The prevalence of autism and other developmental disorders is rising. Changing who teaches early-career pediatricians about these issues will negatively affect children’s health

A federal ruling on the ACA is threatening lifesaving medical services and prioritizing anti-LGBTQ+ bias over scientific evidence

A pillar of every neuroscience textbook, the classic “homunculus” has just gone through a radical revision

Requiring a prescription for all forms of naloxone holds the overdose-reversing medication hostage, kept from millions of Americans who should carry it in their purses and back pockets

Biodiversity loss and climate change are two sides of the same coin. Why can’t we treat them that way?