I recently wrote about how children and adolescents who spend more time in digital environments than they do having real-world experiences (see "Getting Our Kids' Brains Back on Track"). One of the ...

The situation with the fiscal year 2026 budget for the United States is, to put it politely, kind of a mess. The White House proposed a budget earlier this year with significant cuts for a number of ...

Tatsuya Amano receives funding from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and Discovery Project. Despite growing calls for diversity, equity and inclusion in science, a new study reveals ...

"Trust in science is collapsing"—that's the alarm we often hear. It's not surprising, then, that recent years have seen major efforts to study the phenomenon and its dynamics in the general population ...

How do you convince a teenager that a research career is within their grasp? Madeleine Cheung and her mentor, NASA scientist Charles Miller, explain. M.C.: In October 2023, two months into an America ...

A decades-old cancer drug may soon be approved to help kids with certain autism-related symptoms linked to folate deficiency. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to clear ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

Captive animals sometimes need a transfusion, but the typical approach to blood banking isn’t practical for zoos and aquariums. One veterinarian is testing a solution. Dr. Lily Parkinson, a clinical ...

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...

There are a million kids living in Gaza. Foreign Correspondent followed one young family trying to survive. War has taken so much from 10-year-old Siraj Mohamed. Most troubling is how it's robbed him ...