As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out...
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists. That’s because they forage food and build dens, storing fabric,...
Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the tech and media world. Critics...
From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. January saw the abrupt...
A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon...
People and institutions are grappling with the consequences of AI-written text. Teachers want to know whether students’ work reflects their...
Imagine a healthy forest, home to a variety of species: Birds are flitting between tree branches, salamanders are sliding through...
A young woman starts to become suspicious of her cellphone. She notices it listing Wi-Fi networks she does not recognize,...
Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes
Before 2025, science policy rarely made headline news. Through decades of changing political winds, financial crises and global conflicts, funding...
There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope,...
Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers...
People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists...
