If confirmed, Lander will head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a position that President Donald Trump left vacant for 18 months at the beginning of his term.

From immigration reform to climate change amelioration, researchers and science policy advocates share their hopes for 2021 and beyond.

The regulation, which requires that the agency give preference to dose-response studies in which the underlying data are available, could downplay findings key to defining the dangers of pollution.

Scientists from countries with fewer resources are pushing collaborators from higher-income countries to shed biases and behaviors that perpetuate social stratification in the research community.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

COVID-19 has laid bare some of the pitfalls of the relationship between scientific experts and policymakers—but some researchers say there are ways to make it better.

Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.

Pretending to be a javelin aficionado is one thing. Professing to have real insight into the ongoing pandemic is quite another.

The World Health Organization warns that a lack of data on how many people have the disease could undermine containment and mitigation efforts in many countries.