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.

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In "Huge Numbers," mathematician Richard Elwes spotlights some of the largest numbers humans have ever contemplated.

Homesick for a World Unknown,” by Miriam Horn, is an intimate portrait of renowned wildlife biologist George Schaller.

Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

Sea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling. And to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere ...

Nearly 70 years ago, Congress amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit companies from using food additives before they have been rigorously vetted for safety. This change in the ...

In 2000, three researchers published a peer-reviewed paper concluding that, “under present and expected conditions of use,” Roundup, a formulation of the ...

One summer day in 2020, forestry professor Suzanne Simard ventured into an arid forest in British Columbia to check on an experimental forest she’d planted as part of a research project. In a caravan ...

Prior to 2024, some Medicare recipients, including those on high-cost cancer drugs, paid more than $10,000 for their medicine. Patients taking expensive medicines can now save thousands of dollars.