The NIH faces cuts of 35 percent, requested by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) “superbugs” contribute to more than 4.5 million deaths globally per year and threaten to make ...

The Trump administration is repurposing laws and technologies first launched to combat the threat of terrorism to curtail ...

In early May, just as the US government was about to implement a long-debated policy regulating gain-of-function research ...

The draft executive orders meant to bolster nuclear power growth are focusing on the wrong issues. Costs and safety should be the Energy Department's priority.

Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...

Avian H5N1 took a big leap about four years ago. Previously the virus, first detected in the mid-1990s, would tear through domesticated poultry, killing off flocks in days. It occasionally jumped to ...

Adrian Shahbaz is the vice president for research and analysis at Freedom House, a non-profit organization dedicated to a world where all people are free. Adrian oversees the organization's flagship ...

Dr. Emily M. Bender is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the faculty director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate ...