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Droegemeier: Research funding challenges a needed “wake-up call” for institutions The second Trump administration has made unprecedented cuts to federal spending on scientific research, leading some to fear for the future of science in the United States. “The ...

Science students report on RNA, quantum information and more at ScienceWriters2025 At ScienceWriters2025, eight science graduate students jumped into journalism to cover the 63rd annual New Horizons in Science briefings and the 13th Patrusky Lecture. They filed s...

Pandemic prevention starts now: Three tools to fight the next health threat This year, almost two thousand measles cases dotted America. Cholera, dengue and other infectious diseases continued to spread across the world. As these old menaces threaten to st...

“A fundamentally new technology”: David Awschalom on quantum information science Technology has reshaped society in ways once presumed unimaginable — the first ARPANET message transmitted in 1969, for example, laid the foundation for the internet. Today, ...

Uncovering the tangled story behind AI’s water use One news source states artificial intelligence, or AI, may use up much of the water around Illinois and deplete drinking water sources. At the same time, a social media post argues...

Iran, new Russian weapons, Golden Dome: Expert briefs writers on nuclear threats Other crises may have pushed nuclear weapons out of the spotlight in recent years, but MIT physicist and nuclear security expert Lisbeth Gronlund told attendees on Nov. 8 at the Sc...

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 ...