Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the ...

It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer foolish opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage. The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to some real legislative doozies from ...

Social media use has long been part of the everyday lives of most children and adolescents. Many of them exhibit risky, and in some cases even addictive, behavior. While social media use can certainly ...

In December 2017, after six years of debate and discussion, the United States government closed a chapter—though perhaps not the book—on one of the most controversial experiments in the annals of dual ...

SPRINGFIELD — Some city park facilities that were closed due to the coronavirus are now opening for rental for small functions. Not all park news is good, however. The popular Movies at Forest Park ...