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SB 53 is entering the home stretch despite industry lobbying. Will it make it over the line?

SB 53 is entering the home stretch despite industry lobbying. Will it make it over the line?

How a securities fraud case broke animal welfare enforcement

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a bi-weekly newsletter covering the global transition away from animal testing

Digital dependence is reshaping our brains. But we can fight it.

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Science depends on animal testing. But the work comes at a steep, hidden cost.

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Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.

Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.

Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.

Cuts to science spending may save lab animals — at a cost.

somehow, days expand as we remember them.

Laura Helmuth was named editor-in-chief of Scientific American in March 2020, shortly before the magazine was set to celebrate its 175th year in print. Helmuth, who had previously directed health and ...

Whatever you do, don’t call the Black in Neuro founder “resilient.”

I want to make the world better, but donating feels out of reach.

Grind culture has come for the teens.

Science should be bipartisan. Why is our confidence split down party lines?

Dopamine detoxing, hacking, and fasting: Is any of it real?

Scientists are trapped in an endless loop of grant applications. We’re wasting time and resources, when academia could be making breakthrough discoveries.