The nature writer Robert Macfarlane probes some profound moral and environmental questions in “Is a River Alive?" ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...

Zweig’s book, along with Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson’s recent “The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism,’’ are impassioned accounts contending that in recent years, ...

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.

The story centers on Francisco Lopera, a charismatic and thoughtful Colombian neurologist who, himself a paisa, earns the trust of hundreds of carriers of the mutation and their loved ones. After ...