California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

In a world where AI can rapidly solve longstanding problems like Navier-Stokes, some mathematicians are calling for a more deliberative process to help preserve the field’s core values.

The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner.

The founding editor built a math and science magazine that high schoolers and Nobel laureates alike read. Now, he’s turned to books.

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A non-technical exposition of the Kakeya conjecture, why it matters, and the road to the solution of this conjecture in three dimensions by Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl.

In LIFE UNBOUNDED, pioneering evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff reveals that every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture, was driven by the same underlying pr...

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet.

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

“I used AI daily—how could I expect my students to avoid it entirely?” this computer scientist writes

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the l...

Sometimes, a book perfectly meets its moment. Kevin Hartnett’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE was released on June 9, when everyone wanted to talk about math, computers, and AI.

The “Mozart of mathematics” invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking...

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

Detonation of newly discovered ‘ruptoblasts’, found in flatworms, releases compounds that kill nearby cells in minutes.