Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

Culture with biblical roots spread across the ancient world, but its people did not

Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

The National Labor Relations Board protects workers' right to organize and investigates unfair labor practices. A whistleblower complaint filed by an IT staffer claims Elon Musk and his DOGE team gain...

Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic

Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.

The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.

One year after the first infections were reported, it's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so

Deep funding cuts could deprive millions of treatment and cause more than 350,000 extra deaths per year, report predicts

A new memorandum from the Trump administration opens lawyers who oppose the federal government in court to new peremptory and damaging sanctions decided on by the federal government itself, not by cou...

President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

Go ahead and roll your eyes at those who want to emigrate amid Trump’s second term, but it’s a worrying trend.

Rodent and monkey facilities imperiled by Trump plan to cut overhead payments

White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

Researchers seek common patterns in adolescence, in chimps, elephants, and dolphins

Threatening vaccine access is not only bad science, it’s bad politics.

Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%

Dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Important Covid editorial at Science today, by WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv8836

Pair of studies shines light on how modern humans and Neanderthals settled the continent together

Researchers reviewed the benefits, practicalities, and harms of masks and masking, finding that masks are effective in reducing respiratory disease transmission despite some adverse effects, and empha...

About 1.5 million years ago, early members of our genus Homo walked along a lakeshore in Africa within hours of another kind of hominin, likely Paranthropus