What does a gazelle think when a member of its herd becomes a lion’s dinner? Questions like these have been very much on the mind of the Spanish philosopher Susana Monsó, whose new book, “Playing ...

The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health?

Brooke Borel: So Tom originally came to me with this idea for this podcast to dig into scientific controversies in a ...

Writers whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey that all hope is not lost, while ...

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

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

In March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe ...