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?

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

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

Canada intends to shut down open-net-pen salmon farming by 2029. But removing infrastructure is challenging and costly.

“We’re basically flying blind on 5G,” said Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the ...

Pyrrhotite causes cracks in concrete. But research on how widespread the issue might be has only scratched the surface.

One bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter — ...

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 ...