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The notion that a split between science and politics must exist is largely a fiction—and one of relatively recent vintage.

Welcome back! Among the many courses offered this semester, students may elect to study essential climate-mitigation skills like underwater basket weaving.

To my robovac, hitting a doorjamb and cleaning with dispatch are one and the same. There is no success or failure—these concepts have merged.

Universities are digitally spying on students to make sure they don’t cheat on online tests. A whole generation could be learning to tolerate […]

Here’s how to prepare yourself for the disaster online.

The features get a little hotter every year! It's a self-perpetuating cycle that can't ever be reversed.

If an elite cyclist can use performance-enhancing algorithms to cheat at a virtual race, who's to say a doctor couldn't cheat on a remote exam?

A data detective makes a surprising discovery.

While some technologies are tearing us apart, the Tech Spotlight finalists, selected from over 200 submissions worldwide, are helping shape a better future.

We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.

Demand for bikes has soared in the pandemic. To spur production, the US should adopt the industrial policies from the Asian countries it relies on.

If the drug is authorized, who will be eligible for the treatment? Where will it be administered? How much will it cost?

The more of them we encounter, the more we begin to interpret the world according to their logic.

Twitter has announced new changes to combat misinformation. It should go further by checking and flagging the president's tweets—before they wreak havoc.

Federal scientists want to study how the virus interacts with wildlife—but they say a Trump appointee is stopping them.

A performative post-election ban won’t solve anything. But cutting off the platform’s data-driven rage machine will.

Regeneron’s new Covid drug looks good in early trials, and Trump has called it a miracle. That doesn't mean it’s going to work.

In all eras, we’ve tried—and mostly failed—to police the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable.

The media knows it screwed up in 2016 with John Podesta. Here’s how it should do better in the final weeks of the 2020 race.

From Donald Trump to Lindsey Graham, Republican leaders' attacks on online content moderation are baseless—and authoritarian.