U.S.-based researchers detail how their work has been disrupted by funding cuts and policy changes ushered by the second ...

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

News of the breakup of a leading science institution rippled through an annual gathering of Earth, ocean and space scientists ...

Over the course of 2025, STAT interviewed scientists, patients, university administrators, federal health workers, and others whose lives were disrupted by the Trump administration’s spending cuts, ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis. The government has funded science and then largely left well enough ...

In a nearly daily barrage, President Trump and his MAGA forces heave fireballs at science and higher education. In the last weeks alone, the administration has been busy hurling a demand for a billion ...

Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. His monthly essays, ...

The American Science & Surplus location in the northwest Chicago suburb of Park Ridge is set to close for good after one last day of business Tuesday. The flagship store at 27 Northwest Hwy. in Uptown ...

A beloved Midwest fixture for 88 years, American Science & Surplus, 6901 W. Oklahoma Ave., is part science museum, part maker’s playground, part curiosity cabinet and part straight-up weirdness in the ...