Opinion

Donald Trump has joined big firms in demanding workers end remote work. But the evidence suggests that hurts both workers and the work

Three forensic examiners at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory last year mistakenly concluded that cartridge cases from a crime scene matched a specific firearm. The error exposes systemic flaws that risk wrongful convictions

Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins

Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has its roots in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans

Reviving nuclear power plants to power AI threatens an avalanche of nuclear waste

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds. Instead, he is stocking the leadership of federal agencies with technologists and loyalists

Drones could be a wildlife manager’s “magic tools” to reduce bear-human conflict

AI “alignment” is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal

Decades of warnings went ignored about the threats from climate change. With homes everywhere now burning, flooding and washing away, it’s time we start listening to scientists’ climate solutions

What makes reality shows so popular also helps explain why Donald Trump is so popular

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in the U.S.’s classrooms