Society & Policy

Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new strategies

“Fake news”-style misinformation is only a fraction of what deceives voters. Fighting misinformation will require holding political elites and mainstream media accountable

Joint Nobel laureates aren’t necessarily direct scientific collaborators, and the prize money isn’t always split evenly

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through their own institutions

Time lags between discoveries and awards show how the Nobel Prizes reward science

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, owes his superstar success to self-satisfied competitors who blew obvious opportunities

Reductions to American research at the South Pole could affect the politics of the southernmost continent

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

By canceling congestion pricing for drivers in New York City, the governor of New York State will hurt many retirees, who need the mass transport investments the move promised

A play celebrates the agreement that opened nations worldwide to accepting the science of climate change

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement and Jim Crow is a dishonest ruse