Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and patient safety. Credit...Blake Cale Supported by By Walt Bogdanich Carson Kessler ...

Now that the fall semester is underway at most of the nation’s colleges and universities, attention turns to several major challenges to higher education, most of them posed by federal policies and ...

About a third of Americans (34%) say they almost always or often see people behaving rudely when they’re out in public. Of course, what feels rude to one person might seem perfectly fine to someone ...

An exclusive conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s twin heads of research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment. For the past couple of years, ...

Researchers use radio collars to track deer movements and monitor populations in Pennsylvania state forests. Data reveals deer dispersal patterns, influenced by factors like male competition and roads ...

Liza, an emergency medicine physician, had a fever and a persistent cough, but rigid shift requirements left her little flexibility. Returning from maternity leave recently, she worried that calling ...

Rachelle A Martin receives funding from the NZ Health Research Council. Kaaren Mathias receives funding from the Health Research Council and CURE Kids. University of Canterbury and University of Otago ...

Is there anything people can do to start to restore some sanity and have actually productive conversations with people you disagree with? Yup, answer psychologists. Their advice isn’t always easy to ...

“Mr. President! You talked about some of the violence that’s been going on at dealerships,” a reporter yelled to President Trump as he stood next to Elon Musk and a Tesla parked near the White House ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has restored a $257,000 contract for 9/11-related cancer research after the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, tried to ...