Opinion

A completely fabricated condition, crafted from racist medical biases, still corrupts the criminal justice system today

Negotiations over a global pandemic treaty broke down at WHO this year. The legacy of the world's unreadiness for COVID means that it is essential to adopt the accord in 2025

We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our heads in the sand and why we need to pull them out, fast

Students should learn about both the natural world and human-made—or engineered—one we live in

Is baby Skynet already here? We need robust laws now to withstand eliminating humans from nuclear decision-making

A philosophy department chair arrested at a campus protest offers university presidents a lesson in democracy

H5N1 is running rampant through dairy cows, putting humans at risk of an epidemic

We should—and must—take careful measure of what we name cosmic objects and the terms we use throughout science

Teens are sending deepfake nude images of classmates to each other, disrupting lives. Schools, technology developers and parents need to act now

Baked-in news practices cover only the worst moments of protests and neglect telling people what protesters are asking for, extensive research shows

Americans don’t like being told what to do, and many don’t trust government. These stubborn attitudes might turn H5N1 bird flu into a pandemic

Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper