New technology permits the deciphering of ancient scrolls without opening them—and the rush is on to expand our knowledge of these materials while we still can.
New documents strengthen—perhaps conclusively—the lab-leak hypothesis of Covid-19’s origins.
The Covid pandemic raises an important question: How should promising but dangerous science be regulated?
Even if he steps down as the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk has already struck a resounding blow for free speech.
Newly released emails cast more doubt than ever on the official story of Covid-19 as a naturally occurring virus.
The next Congress should investigate not only how the virus emerged but also the institutional failures that obscured the search for truth.
David Quammen fails to ask the necessary questions of his scientific sources, rendering his new book on Covid a work of advocacy, not reporting.
A Nature article traffics in debunked history to bolster claims of discrimination against women in science.
Why science reporters don’t report fairly on the origins of Covid-19
The ousting of President Biden’s science advisor shows that sensitivity increasingly trumps expertise.
President Biden’s gender and sex criteria for his Supreme Court nomination is no more rational than the infamous distinction Roman emperor Elagabalus used for his appointments.
Scientific American’s broadside against E. O. Wilson fits a fashionable, science-denying trend.
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