New Senate leadership could finally help us fight climate change By Ula Chrobak / Published January 13, 2021
Washington, D.C. is home to a fascinating labyrinth of tunnels By Joseph Trevithick and Thomas Newdick/The War Zone / Published January 12, 2021
The attack on the Capitol had all the ingredients of a COVID-19 superspreader event By Sara Kiley Watson / Published January 12, 2021
Oklahoma floods are poisoning tribal lands By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News / Published December 23, 2020
Five election misinformation campaigns to avoid resharing By Starbird, West, & DiResta/The Conversation / Published November 6, 2020
Follow along as battleground states tally presidential votes By John Kennedy / Published November 4, 2020
Meet the former government officials who quit or retired to protest ‘blatant disregard’ of science By Starre Vartan & Jenny Morber/Undark / Published October 28, 2020
One of the country’s top environmental officials has been serving illegally By Andrew McKean/Outdoor Life / Published October 23, 2020
Science was a big winner—and loser—at this week’s presidential debate By Sara Chodosh / Published October 23, 2020
Five key science takeaways from the first presidential debate By Purbita Saha / Published September 30, 2020
The CDC thinks 90 percent of the US could still catch COVID-19 By Purbita Saha / Published September 24, 2020
Drone surveillance can help hold governments accountable—but it can also oppress us By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick/MIT Press Reader / Published September 21, 2020
Political rhetoric may impact your hurricane preparedness By Ula Chrobak / Published September 11, 2020
Convincing someone to wear a mask is hard, but not impossible By Colin Marshall/The Conversation / Published August 30, 2020
The CDC’s new COVID-19 testing guidelines could make the pandemic worse By Sara Kiley Watson / Published August 27, 2020
The Great American Outdoors Act proves that grassroots advocacy and democracy still work By Robinson & Krebs/ Outdoor Life / Published August 6, 2020
Local opposition to Alaska’s Pebble Mine grows as the project reaches the next milestone By Bjorn Dihle/ Outdoor Life / Published July 29, 2020
An unprecedented locust swarm is creating unlikely allies By Lou Del Bello/Undark / Published June 7, 2020
COVID-19 has turned tests and personal protective equipment into luxuries By Devi Sridhar/Undark / Published March 23, 2020
Who’s responsible for containing COVID-19? By Brian Labus/The Conversation / Published March 11, 2020
The American healthcare system is only making COVID-19 worse By Kat Eschner / Published March 9, 2020
Where every Democratic candidate stands on the biggest environmental issues By Ula Chrobak / Published March 2, 2020
Congress is putting money toward gun violence research for the first time in decades By Kat Eschner / Published December 19, 2019
Driverless car proponents love this stat. Too bad it’s a wreck. By Dan Albert / Published June 26, 2019
State parks could be 10 times more expensive to operate by 2050 By Ula Chrobak / Published June 7, 2019
By destroying this female pharaoh’s legacy, her successor preserved it forever By Eleanor Cummins / Published May 14, 2019
Pretty soon we’ll have to stop blaming China for global carbon emissions By Kat Eschner / Published April 4, 2019
The president wants NASA back on the moon by 2024—a risky and unrealistic request By Neel V. Patel / Published March 28, 2019
The biggest public lands bill in a decade has something for everyone By Ula Chrobak / Published February 19, 2019
Kids skipping school to protest climate change isn’t just reasonable—it’s logical By Rupert Read/The Conversation / Published February 15, 2019
What science issues President Trump did—and did not—address in this year’s State of the Union By Kaitlin Sullivan / Published February 6, 2019
People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their own thinking By Kat Eschner / Published December 19, 2018
A science-loving lady could head the next House Science Committee By Jillian Mock / Published November 8, 2018
Brazil’s new president plans to plunder the Amazon, which is bad news for all of us By Kat Eschner / Published October 30, 2018
Twitter will let you see your feed in chronological order again—here’s how and why By Stan Horaczek / Published September 18, 2018
Google says its search can’t be biased—that’s not how search works By Rob Verger / Published August 29, 2018
What we know about the new head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy By Jennifer Lu / Published August 2, 2018
Here are 10 plants and animals that might have gone extinct without the Endangered Species Act By Anna Brooks / Published July 23, 2018
Social media’s political role got its start in the Middle East By Lexi Krupp / Published June 26, 2018
The EPA has a new plan that’s good for business and bad for bodies By Jennifer Lu / Published May 29, 2018
The EPA is keeping a troubling new study on drinking water under wraps. Here’s what you need to know. By Kat Eschner / Published May 17, 2018
New York should ban plastic bags—and so should the rest of the country By Eleanor Cummins / Published April 25, 2018
Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal: how to find out if your data was compromised By Stan Horaczek / Published April 10, 2018
We shouldn’t disregard the ideas that come from teens’ developing brains By Eleanor Cummins / Published March 1, 2018
All the science that made it into the State of the Union By Eleanor Cummins / Published January 31, 2018
Exclusive: House Science Committee members say President Trump’s lack of science advisers leaves us vulnerable to disaster By Rachel Feltman / Published January 25, 2018
WATCH: Bill Nye on science media, politics, and the feature film he wants to make By Jason Lederman / Published December 30, 2017
Exclusive: House Science Committee members just sent a letter to President Trump insisting he stop relying on fake news By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Published May 18, 2017
These conservatives want to convince you that climate change is real By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Published May 1, 2017