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Applications open for SHERF: A development program for U.S.-based, early-career journalists The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Association of Health Care Journalists together are accepting applications for ...

Jack Szostak on the origin of life When Nobel laureate Jack Szostak asked the crowd at the ScienceWriters2025 conference in Chicago whether life is widespread in the universe, hands went up across the room. When he ...

Will cuts in science funding and immigration crackdowns spur a U.S. brain drain? Amid significant cuts to U.S. research funding, attacks on higher education, and increased scrutiny of immigrants, many supporters of science are concerned that the United States w...

Can NASA pursue breakthrough science during a political upheaval? NASA’s missions have taken humans to the moon, put rovers on Mars, and revealed the wonders of distant stars and galaxies. But the Trump administration has proposed reducing the ...

Quantum scientist David Awschalom to present 13th Patrusky Lecture David Awschalom plans to share his insights about how quantum information science and technology are reshaping our everyday lives when he delivers the 13th annual Patrusky Lecture ...

Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science Magazine, has been named the winner of the 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. The judges se...

Max Kozlov wins 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Max Kozlov at Nature has won the 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for a young science journalist, for his reporting on the Trump Administration’s disrupti...

Emily Sohn wins 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting Freelance journalist Emily Sohn has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting. The award, established in 2021 by the Council for the Advance...

Seven journalists awarded 2025-26 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships Seven journalists with experience in beats from medicine and biology to neurodegeneration and the environment have been awarded Taylor/Blakeslee Graduate Fellowships from the Counc...

Anna Gibbs awarded Taylor/Blakeslee mentored science journalism project fellowship Freelance journalist Anna Gibbs has been awarded a Taylor/Blakeslee Mentored Science Journalism Project Fellowship to pursue a feature story about an innovative effort to reverse c...

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