From pathogen research to geoengineering and AI, consequential science is accelerating. Whose hands are on the wheel?

Experiments that make viruses more virulent or contagious present significant risks. Are those risks worth the rewards?

In the traditional lingo of software engineers, these systems would be called “brittle.” ...

Farmers and health experts say it’s complicated. RFK Jr.’s milk adviser, Mark McAfee, says he’s up for the challenge.

Canada intends to shut down open-net-pen salmon farming by 2029. But removing infrastructure is challenging and costly.

“We’re basically flying blind on 5G,” said Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the ...

Pyrrhotite causes cracks in concrete. But research on how widespread the issue might be has only scratched the surface.

In the late 1980s, at a federal research facility in Pensacola, Florida, Tamar Barkay used mud in a way that proved revolutionary in a manner she could never have imagined at the time: a crude version ...

To receive federal funding, such high-risk work — sometimes called “gain of function” — must be evaluated by a government committee. That committee follows a framework that was influenced by guidance ...