Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings of the structures that govern global health…

Nanotechnology is spurring a new industrial revolution. The process of engineering materials on an incredibly small scale (a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers wide) has led to advancements in…

President Vladimir Putin’s announcement in August that Russia had cleared the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine for use before it even completed safety trials sparked skepticism worldwide. Now he may…

By now, it has become clear that the means to end the COVID-19 pandemic will reach people in poor countries far later than they will get to people in wealthy ones. Only one of the 29 poorest…

The mission had gone smoothly from start to finish. “Thanks for flying SpaceX,” an engineersaidas the spaceship splashed back down to Earth, prompting laughs in the mission-control room. SpaceX’s…

The coronavirus pandemic has, and continues to affect almost every industry worldwide, including the publishing industry where widespread impacts have left publishers, writers, and readers wondering…

The day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration,the United Statescrossed a tragic milestone, marking 400,000 deaths from COVID-19. Biden has since cautioned that half a million American lives could…

Even in a year of horrendous suffering, what is unfolding inBrazilstands out. In the rainforest city ofManaus, home to 2 million people, bodies are reportedly being dropped into mass gravesas quickly…

BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reuters review of research,…

In an interview with Foreign Policy, the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama revisits his view of liberal democracy as the end of ideological progression. He reveals that “the end of history…