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2017 is shaping up to be one of the worst years on record for North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered large whale species. There are only…

Death may be inevitable. But what about aging? If we could figure out what biological switches get flipped to start the process of decline, could we…

It’s no secret that there are deep social and political divides in the U.S. What’s less clear, is what is driving the polarization.Carol Graham has spent…

More than 60,000 patients in the U.S. receive general anesthesia every day. But despite the fact that anaesthesia drugs, like ether, have been around for…

Nowhere is the gap between climate science and federal climate policy more obvious than at the Environmental Protection Agency. Administrator Scott Pruitt…

It’s no secret that Massachusetts has an affordable housing problem. In his 2018 State of the Commonwealth address, Governor Charlie Baker noted that “it…

When we think about the impacts of climate change in New England, our minds often go to the ocean and coasts. But a new report from the U.S. Department of…

For almost a decade, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper slashed science funding and restricted government researchers’ ability to speak to the public.…

There is a long and troubling history of science – or at least pseudoscience – being used to justify racism and discrimination. The nineteenth century…

Each month, we speak to our colleagues at the Journal Nature to hear about the stories they are following. This month we talk with Nature's Anna…