Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.

President Trump’s push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation, but experts say that strategy is misplaced.

This week on Entanglements, our hosts talk to an atmospheric chemist and a planetary physicist about geoengineering.

The HHS secretary promised to find the cause of autism. Then he fired federal scientists trying to do just that.

How far should the AAP go to disclose potential conflicts of interest in guidelines and other official recommendations?

Every day, Jerry Grabarek looks out for a plume of smoke a couple miles from his dairy farm. Grabarek, a 73-year-old from Preston, Connecticut, can’t always see the plume. Some days are too rainy. Or ...

Around a decade ago, a patient in the Netherlands went to his doctor with a request for euthanasia. He was in his 40s, suffering from depression and psychosis, and haunted by feelings of despair, ...

Editor’s Note: The original version of this article failed to disclose that some of the quoted critics of orthodontics have financial ties to alternative, direct-to-consumer therapies. While the ...

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions.

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.