Brian King, the imperious former head of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), was unceremoniously cashiered from his ...

The company Pulsar Fusion recently unveiled their design plans for a new nuclear fusion powered rocket. This idea isn’t as crazy as you think – let’s have a ...

In the wake of Covid, trust in scientific and medical experts has eroded and become starkly polarized, threatening the ability of science agencies to sustain broad public support. The National ...

Every year, the US sees around 1,200 tornadoes tear across its landscape – but lately, things have felt different. Tornadoes are striking earlier, appearing in unusual places and clustering together ...

Measles has been making an unwelcome comeback in the U.S. and world lately. Its resurgence might be enough to make many of us reasonably wonder: Just how protected am I from measles? And should I ...

We know that everything in the Universe, as it exists today, arose from some pre-existing state that was different from how it is at present. Billions of years ago, there were no humans and no planet ...

When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below. It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labelling stem cells with a genetic ‘barcode’, they have ...

How can you practice science journalism under a regime hostile to science and journalism? I talked about this dilemma March 26 with Laura Helmuth, former editor-in-chief of Scientific American.

Bonobos use a combination of calls to encourage peace with their partner during mating rituals, research suggests. The discovery is part of a study that suggests our close evolutionary cousins can ...

It's well-established that, on the whole, Americans die younger than people in most other high-income countries. For instance, an analysis from 2022 found that the average life expectancy of someone ...

In May 2022, Ted Nordhaus and I participated in a workshop on “supply-side progressivism” organized by Ezra Klein and Steve Teles at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. As ...