From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Progress depends on the willingness to reassess long-held beliefs, prioritize patient-centered outcomes and ensure that modern care reflects what the science supports.

Last month, a government agency erased climate change from a manual that helps federal and state judges understand complex science in court. The political attack on the nonpartisan publication “should ...

This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF10224, and the National Science Foundation under Grant GBMF10224 to the National Academy of Sciences. Any ...