Politics

Researchers use powerful geometrical methods to try fixing unfair districts. That alone isn’t enough; we need to fight the values behind gerrymandering

Expanding the state and federal insurance program helps prevent overdoses. But that only happens with enough treatment, and legal reform, to make it work

President Biden made big promises about what his climate and energy agenda could deliver during his State of the Union speech

The Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete for survival in the face of federal spending limits

A former government official calls for investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena without succumbing to conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials

A new catalog of more than 12,000 galaxy clusters is helping scientists better understand the universe’s clumpiness, dark energy and some of the smallest particles in the cosmos: neutrinos

Election polls are accurate but can only reveal voter intentions on the day they were taken. They don’t predict the future

We should return samples from Mars to answer fundamental scientific
questions. That could mean stretching out the mission to keep NASA’s
other projects intact

This banner year for elections worldwide may witness the arrival of advertising tailored to your personality

Despite some lawmakers’ claims, “cure-based recovery” for gay and transgender people comprises one of psychiatry’s longest and darkest chapters. We shouldn’t inflict it on today’s kids

The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil threatens public health and serves as a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of science denial

Data voids in search results can lead down rabbit holes that bolster belief in fake news