New administration will seek to shift U.S. off fossil fuels and expand public lands protections, but face serious opposition from Senate GOP.

Going back to normal is not enough. A revamp is required.

The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies - but he also inherits a nation divided.

Several scientists fail to win seats in Congress, while referenda seem poised to win.

With so many votes cast for Trump, some researchers conclude that they must work harder to communicate with the public.

It's full of tricks and optical illusions.

The extraordinary effort to speed the development of treatments and vaccines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put into sharp relief the need for the global science community to share scientific data openly.

Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.

The ageny may be exploring the idea of using expanded access - a more limiting program - in the early days of Covid vaccine rollouts.

Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues.

President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths.

How the world's greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.

In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

The Times spoke to two dozen experts who said decisions made now would spell the difference between a difficult future and something far worse.

The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White House-decorum be damned.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.

The appointment of a climate change denier to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.

Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election.

Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear.