Some analysts think the markets could out-compete polls in newsrooms and more, but the approaches are vastly different.

As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

No wonder the European Marine Energy Center, one of the world’s leading agencies for developing and testing wave and tidal power technologies, chose to set up shop here; the nonprofit agency hosts ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence ...

In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to end the basic government consensus that climate change hurts human health and the environment, launching what’s likely to become a multiyear legal ...

Over time, social media has evolved to function as something of a town square, where Americans come to chat, share information, and organize. Unlike actual town squares, however, these platforms are ...

CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. Some U.S. politicians are advocating for reform towards a single payer system, such as Medicare for All.

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One of the world’s leading climate, weather and wildfire science research institutions is being targeted for elimination in what many of those affected see as President Donald Trump’s political ...

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

The town of Seagraves sits on the high plains of West Texas, not far from the New Mexico border. Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton. Dissolved in ...