New nuclear-capable planes and upgrades to old equipment are coming. Will they deter warfare or lead to an arms race?

The Undark Podcast is returning with a new format and a new name: Entanglements. Tune in starting Monday, November 11.

Published annually by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the survey draws on interviews with about 240,000 people from about ...

The social and political impacts of storms, floods, and heat waves are often transient and short-lived, experts say.

False and inflammatory online content may not have much of an influence on the average person, says David Rothschild.

Instead of medications and a NICU stay, doctors are increasingly using a simple method to help opioid-affected newborns.

Social scientists and psychologists have tried to develop interventions, particularly for conspiracy theories, but many so far have had practical limitations and meager effects. “It has always been ...

On a chilly morning in early December 2017, attorney Anthony Spaniola awakened at his cabin on Van Etten Lake in Oscoda, Michigan, to the sight of billowy white froth bobbing along the shore. He ...

Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may fly as far as the coast of Peru, where it spends several months before making ...