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

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

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." ...

In the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era ...