The COVID-19 pandemic seems to take every public problem—vast social inequality, political polarization, the spread of conspiracy theories—and magnify it. Among these problems is the public’s growing ...

Mr. Patel is a staff editor in Opinion who covers science. America is at risk of losing a generation of scientists. Amid sweeping cuts to federal research funding by the Trump administration, job ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

When I was a kid, I’d sometimes spend the day with my dad in his lab, at the National Institutes of Health. For a few hours I’d read, while eating vending-machine crackers and drinking Diet Coke. I’d ...

Both science and common sense tell us we should avoid discussing topics at work that incite emotion and make us irrational. Hundreds of behavioral science studies show people rarely understand the ...

Shivanku Misra is an AI expert, currently serving as Vice President overseeing enterprise advanced analytics and AI initiatives at McKesson. In the rapidly evolving field of data science, the success ...

Mars explorers could get a lot done in a month, experts say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA is evaluating a first human ...

As with most disasters, when the history of the COVID pandemic is written, there will be a fair amount of finger-pointing involved. Much more could have been done to mitigate the coronavirus impact in ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy lifting for humankind's reach for the stars. NASA announced ...

THE transference of schools from 'vulnerable' to 'safe' areas in Britain, where they now work in conjunction with other schools of the same type, was a necessary part of the scheme adopted at the ...