Fighting the spread of coronavirus requires striking a balance between guaranteeing people's safety and protecting civil liberties. It's time for a national conversation about which rules should be legally enforced, and why

This deadly new adversary will exploit the government’s delayed response

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From our annual Top Thinkers poll to Brexit and—of course—coronavirus

The swift development of a safe vaccine represents a scientific triumph. Rolling it out at scale and inoculating a critical mass of the population will require no less ingenuity

The government must do more to drive the switch to electric cars

Investing in wave energy can create green jobs and lower emissions

Can you really trust a miracle product cooked up with such speed? Philip Ball explains why you should

We should be looking now at the system to compensate anyone who is harmed, however unlikely that harm may be

When artificial intelligence began beating the world’s greatest players, a chess grandmaster devised his own way to give human ingenuity an upper hand against the machine. The result, however, was not quite what he expected

A vaccine is our best shot at getting the world back on track. But the path to getting there is complicated

Government incompetence must not be allowed to derail urgent improvements in our pandemic infrastructure