In recent years, some doctors have criticized the organizations for being overly punitive, and say they felt obliged to work ...

Ashish Jha, the former White House Covid-19 response coordinator, discusses the country's successes and mistakes.

The COP conference is growing in size, but not in action on climate goals, experts say. A 2021 report suggests reform.

In a bid to unearth its own nickel, lithium, and more, the U.S. is using AI to help zero in on mineral-rich deposits.

It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River just before dawn on June 6 last year rapidly emptied Europe’s largest hydroelectric reservoir. Some 14 ...

Ashley Smart is the associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and a senior editor at Undark.

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...