Violent pornography is easily accessible on the internet, and some children encounter it before they even get to middle school. How does this influence their expectations when it comes to physical ...

The biomedical research giant is largely run by 27 institute and center directors. Will those roles become politicized?

The CDC's principal deputy director said the situation is "just the cost of doing business," citing personal freedom.

Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements?

In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us forward.

A Trump administration policy asks agency scientists to Google their co-authors and report foreign collaborations.

The agency plans to analyze the cost-benefit of PM2.5 and ozone regulation without using a dollar value for lives saved.

Growing up in Teaneck, New Jersey, with a brother who had severe intellectual disabilities, Linda Birnbaum developed an interest in the human brain. She was a formidable child: In 1961, as a teenager, ...

While Sagan was primarily concerned with the rise of pseudoscience, Mann and Hotez fear that we’re now in the midst of an anti-science boom, led by people, corporations, and governments who ...

Lauren Kennedy West was still a teenager when she began to smell and hear things that weren’t there. Then to see things, too, that were invisible to others. Meanwhile, her moods began to intensify, ...

Earlier this year, a biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan received an update from the National Institutes of Health. The federal agency, which funds a large swath of the country’s ...