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The case of fracking in Pennsylvania shows that if experts and fossil fuel industry leaders can cooperate, innovation is possible.

Studies are building toward a tentative clinical profile of the outbreak.

Without one, it risks missing out on all the technology’s benefits—and falling behind rivals such as China.

Washington and Beijing have a shared interest in making sure new technology stays within limits.

Beijing is a natural partner to fast and cheap development, but Riyadh should be wary of alienating its allies.

The resignation of a State Department official is the latest instance of a systematic suppression of evidence, former officials and whistleblowers say.

The brutal legacy of industrialization left the “scientific-technical intelligentsia” in the cold.

Hsue-Shen Tsien was driven out of the United States by political paranoia. Will the same happen to a new generation of Chinese talent?

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.

With escalating drug prices and growing vaccine paranoia, American populism is taking down the edifice of global public health.

FP’s editor in chief introduces our July issue on how to adapt to robots, AI, trade wars, and an aging world.

New visa limitations for Chinese students only aid Beijing’s technocratic ambitions.

As an era of peace approaches, both countries should take practical steps to strengthen the relationship.

The Centers for Disease Control will soon be run by a military doctor with a long history of pushing discriminatory AIDS policies.

Amid reports of a new Russian missile, DARPA's chief says the United States lacks infrastructure.

America’s military is the only institution that can break the partisan deadlock on the worst threat the nation faces.

Australia’s scientists are working against time and climate change politics to save their beloved coral reef.

China's next-generation supercollider will unlock secrets of the universe — and destroy the ideals of the scientists running it.

A feud within Russia's scientific community could have major repercussions.

The alleged use of a “sound weapon” against U.S. Embassy officials in Cuba harks back to a Cold War medical mystery.