In 2015, John Bohannon, a science journalist and biologist, felt that reporters were at fault for bad science and the ...

The Trump administration is trying to recast nuclear power as a pillar of American strength, pairing new reactor plans with an aggressive push to move and reprocess the nation’s most dangerous waste.

A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...

Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, ...

Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it’s growing faster than legitimate peer reviewed ...

Can something that exists be bad science? The multiverse pops out of quite a few theories in physics, and has been proposed as a solution to certain vexing problems. But it’s also been argued that the ...

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Factor doubles down on taking the guesswork out of eating well with expansive new chef-crafted meals, nutrition-focused offerings like high protein and GLP-1, and the appointment of Kylie Sakaida, MS, ...

Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public distrust of ...

If the true crime phenomenon on streaming platforms and podcasts has proven anything in the recent decade, apart from our collective addiction to onscreen misery, it’s that courtrooms and science ...

Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...