Opinion

A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

Prominent vaccine skeptic RFK, Jr., is a proven menace to public health. But with a bird flu outbreak looming, he is poised to take a perch atop the federal public health enterprise

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development

New diagnostic techniques can pick up these brain injuries and ensure people get help

Censoring what children read deprives them of reality and the chance to feed their curiosity and develop empathy

The fossil-fuel industry argues that we can’t live without its deadly products. It is wrong

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is facing closure. Shutting it down would be a loss to science as a whole

Damage to your environment can bring a profound sense of loss; that feeling, called solastalgia, can also provide inspiration

Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks

Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policymakers can help fix it

Today’s cannabis plant is highly cultivated and incredibly potent. Treating it like a commodity, and not a testable, regulated medicine, is hurting people

Two years of experimentation taught a Nashville guitarist not every musical myth makes sense