President Trump’s push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation, but experts say that strategy is misplaced.

This week on Entanglements, our hosts talk to an atmospheric chemist and a planetary physicist about geoengineering.

The HHS secretary promised to find the cause of autism. Then he fired federal scientists trying to do just that.

How far should the AAP go to disclose potential conflicts of interest in guidelines and other official recommendations?

Every day, Jerry Grabarek looks out for a plume of smoke a couple miles from his dairy farm. Grabarek, a 73-year-old from Preston, Connecticut, can’t always see the plume. Some days are too rainy. Or ...

Around a decade ago, a patient in the Netherlands went to his doctor with a request for euthanasia. He was in his 40s, suffering from depression and psychosis, and haunted by feelings of despair, ...

Editor’s Note: The original version of this article failed to disclose that some of the quoted critics of orthodontics have financial ties to alternative, direct-to-consumer therapies. While the ...

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.

Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

President Donald Trump‘s administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research ...