Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.

In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic - and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

Trump's experience is a world away from the stressful waiting game most patients wade through after a positive test.

Amy Coney Barrett is likely to influence the court on environmental regulation and scientific expertise, say legal scholars.

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?

The Times spoke to two dozen experts who said decisions made now would spell the difference between a difficult future and something far worse.

The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White House-decorum be damned.

In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.

We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.

The appointment of a climate change denier to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.

The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.

Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election.

Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear.

A new study shows the Biogen conference held at Boston's Marriott Long Wharf hotel in February played a far greater role in spreading the coronavirus than previously thought.

Political meddling and years of neglect of public-health data management mean the country is flying blind.

The decision could generate intense controversy inside the administration and the broader scientific community because of a dearth of reliable data.

"We don't … understand the extent of how this could impact us legally; we're just scared because we know it could," one student says

The FDA granted emergency use authorization for a saliva test for the virus that causes Covid-19, which could improve testing capability in the U.S.

Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.

Study would seek to identify effects of bias and how to promote equity.

The US National Science Foundation's new focus on computer science could also put already-under-represented groups at a disadvantage, critics say.

The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns. But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.

Just weeks after resolving shortages in swabs, researchers are struggling to find the chemicals and plastic pieces they need to carry out coronavirus tests in the lab - leading to long waiting times.