The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them.

President Donald Trump called to end "reliance on junk science." But the order itself included claims about gender-affirming care that clash with leading medical research and practice.

Investors are undervaluing promising drug candidates on the horizon for the two pharma giants, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey ...

Two decades after “The Republican War on Science” was published, the broader crisis has reached a level that hardly seemed possible in the recent past.

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

Let’s talk about data. Just the facts. These data are information gathered by satellites, instruments on the ground (thermometers, wind speed gauges, etc.), lasers and the many other ways humans use ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Well chosen names can quickly convey scientific concepts or health messages — in emergency situations they can even save ...