No One Is Building America’s $500 Drone
As the U.S. restricts Chinese drones, American manufacturers are focusing on military systems — leaving firefighters, search teams, and other civilian users without affordable alternatives.
Opinion
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What We Don’t Know About Women’s Health Can Kill Us
My symptoms weren’t just perimenopause. They were signs of cancer — and better care might save others from delayed diagnoses.
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The Rohingya Crisis Is Also a Climate Story
The humanitarian response continues to be framed almost entirely around protection from persecution, rather than around long-term resilience to recurring environmental shocks.
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Who Controls Science?
Competing narratives emerge not because evidence is inherently ambiguous, but because power determines which knowledge is visible, legitimate, or silenced.
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World Ocean Day 2026 Advocates for Strong Marine Protected Areas
Boundaries matter only if we enforce them, and if they are put in the right places to begin with.
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The Myth of the Irreplaceable Scientist
To create fair promotion and evaluation systems, academia might learn something from biology: Cells do not rely on one individual; tissues survive because they are adaptable and redundant.
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What Happens to the Next Generation of Scientists if Politicians, Not Peers, Determine Research Funding
Fewer trainees today will mean fewer scientific discoveries tomorrow.
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Lessons in Resilience
People who have been forcibly displaced by conflicts — such as those in Syria and Ukraine — can show Americans how to thrive despite adversity.
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Facts Won’t Fix It
Repairing our social fabric means getting on the same page about what moral standards we want to uphold.
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Below the Surface
Introducing a new comics column on fish, people, and the science and politics that connect them.