New Horizons Newsroom 2025

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 ...