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Each virus has its unique pattern of spread, and scientists are starting to get a handle on how the novel coronavirus behaves. This understanding is making it possible to rank the risks of different activities from high to low to trivial. The most in...

What’s the medical breakthrough that could save the most lives over the next ten years? In the 2020s, medical research will likely inch forward when it comes to major killers such as heart disease and cancer. But the biggest potential to save lives c...

It’s that time of the year when a middle-aged person’s fancy turns to treadmills and diets. Scientific literature on excess weight and health is expanding along with global waistlines, and yet, it’s hard to find a solid, coherent scientific explanati...

What’s so scary about climate change? The term is not scary — at least not in a visceral, skin-crawling sense. Scientists have shown that the likely two degrees of global warming to come this century will be extremely dangerous, but, you know, “two d...

To leave a longstanding mark in history, Donald Trump needs more than low unemployment numbers and a string of scandals. He needs a moonshot. Other leaders have labelled their goals “moonshots”, but to be remembered alongside the original moonshot, a...

Believers in the quest to make America great again should consider where there is evidence things are going down the tubes. There is hardly a more dismal example than the national decline in sperm production. Last week, scientists published a study c...

Blind faith in any technology can be dangerous, especially when it comes to areas of forensic science such as DNA fingerprinting. For example, if police have “DNA evidence” against a suspect, most juries will assume that is proof of guilt. But while ...

It did not take long to discover there was some hype behind the latest drug being touted as the great hope for Alzheimer’s disease. This summer, the biotech giant Biogen staged a press conference extolling the merits of its experimental drug aducanum...