Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights

China has been the only country to land on the moon for over 40 years – since the Soviet Luna program.

The discovery of the Popa langur, a medium-sized leaf-eating monkey found in central Myanmar, was recently announced by scientists.

As the pandemic raged in April, churchgoers in Ohio defied warnings not to congregate. But what do psychologists have to say about strong beliefs in a god?

COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight days later.

The Southern Appalachian mountains are a global biodiversity hot spot for salamanders. And now a skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate them.

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August.

Here's how the U.S. electoral college came to be.

The presidential elections of 1876, 1888, 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history. Here's why.

A new study looks at one hypothesis explaining why humans' body temperatures have been on the decline. Here's what it found.

Here's why black holes are the scariest objects in the universe.

Our sun's death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?

While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion research industry to implode or wither away.

Across the world, immunologists who retooled their labs to join the fight against SARS-CoV-2 are furiously trying to explain why some people get so sick while others recover unscathed.

The war against plastic may be overshadowing greater threats to the environment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new guidance clarifying what exactly “close contact” means when it comes to transmission of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

As entrepreneurs spend billions on space, there is a backlash building that holds their projects as icons of extravagance, even as they may help save the Earth. This is the "Elysium effect."

Scientists have found a second doorway, called neuropilin-1, that the novel coronavirus uses to invade human cells.

The search for dark matter is at a crossroads. Now, physicists have a new way to tell what the invisible stuff is made of.

People thrive all across the globe, at every temperature, altitude and landscape. How did human beings become so successful at adapting to whatever environment we wind up in?