Society & Policy

A global, crowd-sourced competition seeks to create a new TV series with an iconic female engineer heroine at its center

Adding aerosols to the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight might slow the loss of glaciers but not stop it

A loophole enabled Russian factories to benefit from destroying industrial waste it created

Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?

Two new studies find that a deeper voice gives a politican an edge over a higher-pitched opponent

The 2005 storm forced New Orleans to improve its flood defenses, but many other shoreline towns are still woefully unprepared

The play “Informed Consent” explores deep ethical questions in genetics research 

Close encounters between aircraft pilots and unlicensed drones in the U.S. have nearly tripled in the past year

Will zero-net-energy homes be the wave of the future?

A new study finds that China's emissions of greenhouse gases have been lower than previously reported

Reports of positive experimental results fell after the roll-out of a site where researchers are required to record their methods and outcome measures

MERS inoculation triggers response in monkeys and camels, raising hopes for future human use