A man in a winter hat and wearing blue plastic gloves holds a plastic sample cup and pointed tool near a shelf-like fungus growing on the side of a mossy tree in a forest. A researcher collecting ...

Several high-profile papers on COVID-19 research have come under fire from people in the scientific community in recent weeks. Two articles addressing the safety of certain drugs when taken by ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Re “If Science Keeps Changing, Why Trust It?,” by Elay Shech (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 7): Professor Shech offers a thoughtful argument for what he calls “disciplined trust” in science, a position ...

How do you know the people billed as science experts that you see, hear and read about in the media are really all that credible? Or have they been included just to create a perception of balance in ...

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

These documents agree that all students should leave biology class with an understanding of the basic concepts of biological evolution and of the limits, possibilities, and dynamics of science as a ...