The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice.

Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to sharpen their skills as part of a talented, supportive, diverse community of past and present fellows and mentors. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Alt: Wendy Williams says "She's an icon, she's a legend, and she IS the moment."

Miguel Bandres - Laser propagating inside a soap membrane

Alt: Nathan Fillion: I Don't Even Know What To Say (a man starts to say something and then falls silent with his hand against his cheek)

A growing body of evidence indicates that factors such as rising temperatures and extreme weather are contributing to what some researchers have called “the slow pandemic.”

A Flourish data visualization by Emily Dieckman

Initial observations on the 26 August 2026 catastrophic debris flow in Nepal and Tibet, which has killed hundreds of people.

I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.

The U.S. Forest Service has moved forward with a rule to withdraw protections from 45 million acres of pristine national forests.

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further.

The environmental scientist hopes to return to his home island in Kenya, as both scientist and photographer.

How can professors be sure their online students are real?

The Trump administration is pulling funding from NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, an annual, peer-reviewed report about the state of the region, which is warming more quickly than anywhere else on Earth.