Opinion

Opinion Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confront these pressures, but how we will choose to do so.

Opinion An object's color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds — for different viewers. But that doesn't mean colors are subjective.

Opinion Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

Opinion The fighter jets are likely to incorporate AI, as well as advanced engine and stealth technology.

Opinion An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports.

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple.

Opinion DOGE cuts to NOAA Fisheries aren't making anything more efficient — they're stripping the ability of fishers to adapt their businesses to changing conditions. Similar impacts are being felt across different disciplines, and the U.S. science community must choose whether to look inward, hoping for better days, or to fight back.

A more nuanced understanding of hormone therapy now suggests that its benefits for heart health depend on how soon after menopause onset it is prescribed.

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.