We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized physics, changing our understanding of the universe. His many groundbreaking discoveries include the spe ...

If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,' Trump told more than 150 world leaders.

We explain the administration’s cuts to research. By Alan Burdick I’m an editor and occasional reporter of health and science news. Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. America is in the midst of an epistemological crisis, one most visible and ...

The White House's autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.

In a Sept. 22 press conference that he had billed as “one of the biggest [medical] announcements … in the history of our country,” President Donald Trump touted an unproven link between autism and the ...

Dr. Gounder is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist. On Friday, someone anonymously emailed me an article from a far-right American website as supposed proof that I had killed my husband ...