Society & Policy

The government ended a one-child limit, but the policy already encouraged millions of abortions of females, causing lasting damage

Superpowers are flexing military muscles in orbit, but the U.S. can lead the world away from a planetary disaster

Less ice will bring more drilling, more shipping—and even more melting

The U.S.’s measly stockpile of plutonium is barely adequate for missions planned for the next decade

Recommendations from Scientific American

Critics say that change may be slow because large families are too pricey

But the United Nations find that more is needed to keep temperature rises in check

Only candidates trailing in the polls mentioned global warming

With no road map, a series of unrelated events leads to a life in science

Views about climate change and how to react vary widely from Trump to Carson to Clinton to Sanders

The basics of the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA)

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that coho salmon near U.S. Northwest cities are being killed by chemical runoff from roads and parking lots that reach streams