Mixed Signals,” by Rebecca Charbonneau, explores an unusual period of Soviet-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for aliens.

According to the committee report, concepts related to race, gender, societal status, as well as social and environmental ...

Confidence in scientific institutions mostly survived the first Trump administration. What will happen to it now?

Scientists worry the abrupt drop in official numbers suggests a troubling trend: the politicization of vital statistics.

At a newly launched center, scientists investigate what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations.

In 1989, a pair of chemists boasted at having achieved fusion — that is, harnessing the same type of energy that’s produced by the sun — in room-temperature water. The infamous “cold fusion” ...

Over time, social media has evolved to function as something of a town square, where Americans come to chat, share information, and organize. Unlike actual town squares, however, these platforms are ...

Researchers and scientists are increasingly worried about the fate of federal government health data after the Trump administration took databases and surveys offline in late January, and they fear ...

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