The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons...
Research on what makes people willing to donate organs shows how to motivate many of the unvaccinated this fall
Esports are booming on college campuses, and safe participation in gaming is a new Title IX challenge. Schools should get ahead of the threat of harassment now
Congress must end the exemption of nuclear waste from environmental law if we ever hope to end a 60-year logjam on how to safely store it
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
The “principle of explosion” explains why a single contradiction would destroy math
Restoring habitats to how they were centuries ago, not years ago, could mean more successful conservation efforts
Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as tennis balls, and instead more like waves pushing through water
Science plays an enormous unseen role in keeping international avenues of contact open, even when political doors slam shut. We need to keep those channels open with China
The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system
