science and policy

I was eating at Panda Express earlier today. (Don't judge me.) I noticed that, after a few bites, my fork was completely bent out of shape. (See image.) So, I took a look at the handle. "Compostable," it said.

By Stacie Kershner, Georgia State University;

The New York Times has done something that it very rarely does: It wrote an editorial in support of biotechnology.

It is now indisputable that the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016 was a catastrophe by any measure.

There aren't many things that unite both sides of the political aisle today, but environmental activists have achieved the impossible.

Every relatively wealthy country on Earth could be energy independent if it chose to be. That's because, unlike foreign policy, countries can "go it alone" on energy.

The online news arm of the journal Science is a solid source of information. However, recently it made a very strange editorial decision that could potentially harm its reputation.

Should a public university, which derives much of its funding from state and federal government, be in the business of using that taxpayer money to fund a project whose sole purpose is to besmirch the reputation of scientists, including those of o

In the grand tradition of misidentifying problems and offering proposals that won’t work, the city council of Washington, D.C.

The California Energy Commission just voted unanimously to require new homes to be constructed with solar panels.