Opinion

Pediatric long COVID is more common than many thought, and we keep letting kids be reinfected with new variants

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

As tensions soar in the Middle East, the president’s lame duck status hinders efforts to manage the escalation of risks in the region

Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data

Implementing smart technologies such as demand-controlled ventilation could reduce the carbon footprint of office buildings, which contribute more than one third of fossil fuel emissions globally

Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex

Fortunately, recognition and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in grown-ups are getting better

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that falsely claims that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills are all genetically inherited

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

Abortions after 20 weeks are about ending suffering. To deny someone that care is barbaric

Years after a nuclear disaster wiped out Fukushima’s agriculture, peach growers are banking on Harrods to sell the area’s recovery story