Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

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Trump has ordered the release of UFO files. The real question isn’t what they contain—it’s how the uncertainty could affect ...

But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental illnesses to educational attainment to political affiliation—can ...

Declassified documents released in 2013 during Obama’s presidency acknowledged the existence of Area 51, saying that the secret government space was used as an aerial testing ground for U.S.

On the same day that British police arrested a royal family member over his Epstein ties and US lawmakers demanded domestic prosecutions, President Donald Trump ordered the release of all government ...

More than half contained illegal amounts of THC. Some had mold and pesticides. And one contained a highly toxic chemical.

AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

A model of a new vaccine targeting a family of coronaviruses that includes the virus that causes COVID-19. The image highlights pieces of several different viruses attached to a computer-designed ...