Federal health scientists voice concern over an anticipated takeover by medical skeptics in Trump’s second administration ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday cheered anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the nation’s ...

A Chinese official expressed willingness to cooperate with the United States in space exploration, interest that appears unlikely to be reciprocated.

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to a higher body mass index (BMI) among individuals, underlining that ancient ...

The protein in sea lettuce, a type of seaweed, is a promising complement to both meat and other current alternative protein sources. Seaweed also contains many other important nutrients, and is grown ...

The pandemic and the chaos and controversies that came with it led to an erosion of trust in scientists, and it may be a ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

But it marks a new shift “away from the declines in trust in science that we saw during the pandemic”, says Alec Tyson, the ...

Overall, scientists are in good standing compared with other professions that have taken reputational hits in recent years, ...