President Trump's federal cuts and scrutiny of academic institutions are forcing some U.S. scientists to head for the border. On today's show, an entomologist keeping America's farms safe from pests ...

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, ...

The cuts to NASA’s Science Directorate are part of an overall 24% slash to the space agency’s budget from $24.8 billion to ...

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the centennial of quantum mechanics’ framework, Hubble’s 35th anniversary and the legacy of Kanzi the bonobo.

Science needs shaking up, he said, because it has become inefficient and sclerotic, and its practitioners have been captured ...

The administration’s proposed 2026 budget portends a future where science is no longer a national priority — but an ...

It wants to improve science by making it better and more efficient, he said—to “get more bang for America’s research bucks”.

“The American public needs to understand that you can’t just turn a science switch off and then turn it back on again,” Spinrad said. “This is not like tariffs.” He pointed out that ...

In just the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, sweeping changes have begun dismantling the very foundation of American science. These moves are not bureaucratic details.

Refreezing the melting sea ice in the Arctic is more complicated than you would think. The U.K. is funding geoengineering experiments like this one to curb the effects of climate change. High ...

Ironically, genetic data now support oral histories and challenge archaeological assumptions about disconnected Native American cultures. Science News sponsorship position. In a research area ...

Her New Scientist story “Slimming for Slackers” won the 2006 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award. Most recently, her feature “The Wipeout Gene” was selected for The Best American ...