Opinion

Climate change is real. Dismantling our federal weather agency won’t change that

People who are rated as good storytellers exhibit a purpose-oriented mindset and big-picture thinking more often than others

A Trump administration plan would end the independence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where similar oversight muzzling has led to nuclear disasters overseas

Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

Neuroscience research claiming to question the existence of free will may have been misinterpreted

Popular culture paints going “no contact” as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it’s not always the right choice

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak

Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific veneer

The U.S. Department of Defense suddenly pretending that climate change isn’t real is penny-wise and pound-foolish

Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications

Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist

The sounds we make during emotional moments or when experiencing pain may not be arbitrary