Society & Policy

Legislation revised from last year would spare universities from being penalized in the same way as unscrupulous companies

The four-year study took thousands of samples at hundreds of sites

A crude petroleum spill that has stained a California beach and fouled offshore waters may rank as the biggest oil spill to hit the Santa Barbara coastline in more than four decades.

New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout

John Horgan lists 25 of his favorite science(y) books, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Ulysses

Accelerated testing of compounds that have shown efficacy against the virus may lead to new drugs and vaccines

As the icy region melts, experts grapple with how to simultaneously allow growth and protection

Contemporary women's baseball chronicler Jennifer Ring says the fastest women pitchers currently hit speeds in the 80s (mph) and it keeps going up. Steve Mirsky reports

With its LightSail project, the Planetary Society aims to take the next step in its decades-long quest to transform spaceflight

Drugmakers are being asked to spell out their sales according to their use in cattle, swine or poultry as part of a new proposed rule

Huge experiment across six nations shows lasting benefits from short-term support

Hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sit in police storage throughout the U.S. for lack of money, manpower and other resources