At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

The Trump administration terminated the employment of “probationary” workers at the National Science Foundation.

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as ...

Blue Origin announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after the ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances ... and the revolution of genetic engineering from the discovery of DNA to today’s gene-editing technology.

Kennedy has expressed support for some fields, but has also declared he’d like a ‘break’ in infectious-disease research.

Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences ...

Asteroid 2025 CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 ...