Helen Pearson’s “Beyond Belief” profiles figures who propelled medicine and other fields toward evidence-based thinking.

In "Huge Numbers," mathematician Richard Elwes spotlights some of the largest numbers humans have ever contemplated.

As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

Randy Hatton ran the hotline. His students fielded dozens of drug-related questions from pharmacists, physicians, and even the occasional vet. When the phones rang, Hatton and his team never knew what ...

Tropodo is a pretty village of narrow streets and brightly colored houses, set amid lush green fields in the eastern part of Java, Indonesia’s most populous island. Tall chimneys puffing streams of ...

Implemented a decade ago, the Sex as a Biological Variable policy, or SABV, addressed an important shortcoming: Evidence had shown that diseases and drugs can in some instances affect women and men ...

When George W. Maschke applied to work for the FBI in 1994, he had already held a security clearance for over 11 years. The government had deemed him trustworthy through his career in the Army. But ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...

For decades, a global transition has been underway: The slow, sometimes clumsy shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Changing just one industry requires a significant infrastructural makeover.

In “The Great River,” journalist Boyce Upholt chronicles the long, checkered history of our efforts to control the Mississippi River with locks, levees, and dams. Such meddling has saddled the country ...

Each fall — always before Thanksgiving — Diane Johnson looks to the sky above her home, waiting for the moment when her birds return. “You look up, and they’re here,” she says. “And you remember how ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination when he sat for an interview with Jordan B. Peterson, a controversial Canadian psychologist, during his eponymous ...