As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

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 ...

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

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

A foundational tale of the discipline of public health is a story about the triumph of sharp observation. During an 1854 cholera outbreak in London, the physician John Snow mapped the location of ...

T he exploration of environmental DNA started in the 1980s with researchers studying microbes or microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the use of ...

T he elderly woman was sprawled on her back in the dirt, head resting to one side, elbows bent as though she was about to prop herself up. Dead three months now, her face was no longer recognizable.

P atricia Tricorache, an independent wildlife trade investigator based in Mexico City, spends hours each day lit by the glow of her computer screen, trawling social media sites for people buying and ...

W hile concerns over how to balance agriculture and water availability in the Southwest are nothing new, virtual water is a relatively recent concept. First introduced by British geographer John ...

B efore the heat of the day set in, dozens of people were already gathered under a large banyan tree at the twice-weekly turmeric market in Ataikula, Bangladesh. The season for harvesting turmeric was ...

I n a resettlement colony on the outskirts of Chennai, a sprawling industrial city on India’s Bay of Bengal, rows of beige tenements rise out of marshland in clusters, blocking out the sky in a ...