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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the past nine years, Science News has celebrated early-career scientists tackling some of today’s biggest challenges. The Science News’ Scientists to ...

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a regular consumer of the news, so you know that for many, the reality of doing science in the US has been changing rapidly since the new US administration ...

Research by philosopher of science and Honorary Research Associate at Bangor University, Byron Hyde, looked at the role of transparency in fostering public trust in science. Hyde argues that, to find ...

Katalin Karikó thought the call was a joke. It was 3 a.m. on October 2, 2023. Her husband answered the phone. As someone in building maintenance, “he quite frequently gets calls for fixing this and ...

The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on ...

We explain the administration’s cuts to research. By Alan Burdick I’m an editor and occasional reporter of health and science news. Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired ...

Scientists searching for a cure for cancer have no trouble finding public support. But for those studying potato disease, it’s a tougher sell. The Trump administration seems to have banked on the idea ...

What’s the purpose of your study? It’s the question many basic-science researchers dread. And it’s the question that Carly Anne York received about 10 years ago from a fellow volunteer at the Virginia ...

Science is under attack in the United States (and other places, too). Increasingly, well-established scientific findings are being challenged on social media, although that isn't so surprising. More ...