Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

Over the ensuing five hours, the NIH leadership and MAHA Institute moderators found many areas of common ground: anger over ...

While the Trump administration is defunding scientific research and imposing ideological demands on universities, the defenders of this repression are calling for even worse attacks against higher e ...

The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S.

Basic scientific research is a key contributor to economic productivity. Is science running out of steam? A growing body of research suggests that disruptive breakthroughs—the kind that fundamentally ...

Former Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth resigned after going on a tirade about President Trump following the election. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientific ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering scientists a space to exercise imagination. Science communication is increasingly ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show ...