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” ...

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In “Doctored,” Charles Piller uncovers evidence that many important Alzheimer’s studies are based on faulty data.