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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2020, Karen Bilotti and her husband, Sam, started to notice fine lines in their basement’s concrete walls. Ordinarily, they might not have given them a second thought. But the Bilottis had recently ...

Do cell phones and 5G cause cancer? It’s a question that has plagued Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and if Kennedy is confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, it’s one he will ...

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 ...

One of the goals of the experiment was to see if such an approach might eventually show a way to ease global warming. In a statement to the media on June 5, the researchers — a team from the ...