The COVID-19 pandemic seems to take every public problem—vast social inequality, political polarization, the spread of conspiracy theories—and magnify it. Among these problems is the public’s growing ...

If you thought conservatives distrusted climate science and gender studies but were fine with physics, think again. A sweeping new study reveals a much bleaker situation. Conservative Americans don’t ...

Can science save us from the new coronavirus? With the internet awash in both sound science and pseudoscience, how can people know what to believe? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan, ...

Science is about to become much more exciting—and that will affect us all, argues Google's former CEO. It’s yet another summer of extreme weather, with unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, and floods ...