News in Brief Does the FDA’s Plan to Regulate New Opioids More Strictly Go Far Enough? The FDA has a key role to play in combating America's overdose epidemic, but advocacy groups debate whether it's doing enough. Francie Diep
According to Research News in Brief Is Government Regulation Keeping Americans From Getting Addiction Care? A new major report finds that laws around medication for opioid addiction aren't based in science. Francie Diep
Social Justice What America’s Science Agencies Are Doing About Harassment Activists are putting the pressure on the federal government to leverage its money against alleged sexual harassers. Francie Diep
Social Justice Harassment Is Rife in Science Labs—and University Policies Aren’t Helping Meanwhile, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is struggling with its own controversy over whether it properly punishes member harassers. Francie Diep
Environment What a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ Committee Found When It Looked at Climate Science The scientific community is working to make its predictions more accurate, but there's still a long way to go. Francie Diep
Environment Trump Administration Halts Review of Offshore Oil Rig Safety Inspections The study would have provided the government with recommendations for improvements to its offshore inspection program. Kate Wheeling