Can requiring users of Facebook and other platforms to pass critical thinking tests stem the tide of widely disseminated misinformation?

Two studies present biological evidence that measles infections in unvaccinated children wipe out immune memories of other pathogens, putting the kids at risk of other deadly diseases.

The forecast for upcoming outbreaks failed to foresee the cluster of infections currently affecting Brooklyn.

There are now more cases of measles in America than in any year since the disease was eradicated nearly 20 years ago.

So far this year, 465 infections have been reported, with numbers approaching their highest since measles returned to the country.

Most people who contracted the disease were unvaccinated and some state legislatures are now considering whether to curtail nonmedical vaccine exemptions.

A recent meeting about the disconnect between scientific and public beliefs points to ways researchers can improve how they communicate with skeptics.

The outbreak has infected 50,000 people and killed 300, most of them children, since cases began to crop up in October 2018.

Most of the 34 patients are under 10 years old, and almost all have been confirmed as unvaccinated against the virus.

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2018 issue of The Scientist.

In a new book, a vaccine researcher describes the scientific facts and personal anecdotes behind his family’s experience with autism and its comorbid disabilities.

Advances in microbiome research are increasingly used in anti-vaccination arguments, yet the science actually undermines the premise of the argument.

Scientists criticize unconfirmed reports that President-elect Donald Trump has asked Robert Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, to investigate vaccine safety.

Oncologists have raised concerns about a mouse study that suggests the vaccine for human papillomavirus could cause brain damage.

As Inauguration Day nears, scientists and science advocates are voicing their unease with the Trump Administration’s potential effects on research.

This one will be largely based on the discredited anti-vaccine researcher’s 2010 book.

Police are calling the death of James Bradstreet, a physician who claimed vaccines cause autism and offered autism cures to patients, an apparent suicide.

A biologist who offered €100,000 to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus must pony up, a German court says.