Opinion

A beating heart is neither a necessary nor sufficient standard to determine the start of life, making antiabortion heartbeat bills morally and legally wrong

An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us

A new technology could wipe out whole species. Is it a magic bullet or a genetic atom bomb?

The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men

A universal basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into a brighter future

Societies that farm rice over wheat tend to be more tight-knit and interdependent, which could protect them from pandemic viruses like the one behind COVID

Our opinion section took us to the front lines of COVID, revealed how racists misuse evolutionary biology, illuminated a mental health epidemic in kids, and more

The COVID vaccines can affect menstrual cycles, but the changes are small and short-lived, research shows

RSV is the number one reason children are admitted to hospitals. Progress in developing preventatives raises hopes of changing that

Events like the World Cup can emit millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Defining what a dog is is really tough, but the domestication of wolves might be the feat that set modern humans on the path to dominance

By releasing astronomers’ data before they’ve had a chance to analyze the information, NASA will make research less fair and equitable