Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

Earth in early times looked a lot different than it does now. It was a hot, high-pressure environment with no ozone layer and no oxygen in the atmosphere. Still, organisms that existed at these times ...

If you do research and don’t publish it, is it science? That’s the question at the heart of an ongoing debate on X between entrepreneur Elon Musk and pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun. Over the ...

Exterior view of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While the Trump Administration's sharp increases in tariffs have received much of the political and economic attention in our ...

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created. By Alan Burdick and Emily Anthes Illustrations by Ruru Kuo ...

Left to right: Jace Kuske, Sabrina Mederos, and John Paulus from the Bales Lab viewing brains on a microscope slide to study the biology behind love (called "pair bonding" in non-human animals). (Evan ...

Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup Sakana AI today unveiled what it says is the first generative AI model in the world designed to conduct scientific research on its own. The model, called AI ...