Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has written ...

Biomedical research is entering a new era—one in which human biology is no longer treated as the final validation step but as the foundation for the entire process. Advances in access to human tissue, ...

For over 30 years, the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence has served as a go-to document judges can use when they deal with issues involving scientific testimony. The ...

Human brucellosis has been my field of scientific interest for decades. I tend to read everything published on it and frequently serve as reviewer for many peer-reviewed medical journals. In the past ...

Leadership asks for something different. It requires self-awareness, comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate people, often in situations where there’s no clearly “correct” answer. And it ...

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at a subduction zone. Such places are capable of producing the largest earthquakes possible ...

F or decades, the National Institutes of Health published between 650 and 850 Notices of Funding Opportunities each year. These announcements tell the research community which diseases need study, ...

What we say about our scientific heroes reveals more about us than about them. Three hundred years ago, Isaac Newton was worshipped as a humble Priest of Nature, a virtuous saint who dedicated his ...