CROSS SECTIONS: Dissecting the contentious and the controversial — with science at the core. Recent approvals by the Food and Drug Administration have focused on medications that shrink the sticky ...

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 ...

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

On a cloudy fall day in 2023, Alfred Pebria and his fellow construction workers were installing a wind turbine in Solano County, California. They were trying to hoist a nacelle — a ...

William C. Thompson does not ordinarily hunt for bugs, and his scrutiny of a type of computational algorithm that analyze DNA started out innocently enough. Investigators used software in a case from ...

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 ...

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to ...

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 ...