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U.S. Cuts Antarctica’s Only Research Icebreaker Ship under Trump Budget Squeeze
Douglas Fox, Scientific American
The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research
Aug 19, 2025, 3:00 PM
New Treatments Can Free Kids from the Deadly Threat of Peanut Allergy
Maryn McKenna, Scientific American
Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly threat of peanut allergy, tackling one of our fastest-growing medical problems
Aug 19, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump Cuts Could End U.S. Exploration of the Outer Solar System
Hannah Richter, Scientific American
The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years
Aug 14, 2025, 4:00 PM
Congressman Eric Sorensen on Defending Climate Science, Depoliticizing Weather and Bringing Scientific Rigor to Capitol Hill
Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Jeffery DelViscio, Alex Sugiura, Scientific American
Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois shares how his meteorology roots drive his fight to protect climate science and push back against political interference.
Aug 8, 2025, 10:00 AM
mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding
Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
Aug 6, 2025, 6:30 PM
Proposed House Bill Would Weaken Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangering Whales, Dolphins and More
Ryan Green, Scientific American
Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other species
Aug 6, 2025, 5:30 PM
Why the EPA’s Latest Move Could Worsen the Climate Crisis
Rachel Cleetus, Carlos Martinez, Scientific American
If the EPA abdicates its responsibility to address climate change, it will harm health and the planet in exchange for pandering to fossil fuel interests
Aug 6, 2025, 3:00 PM
NASA Budget Cuts Could Halt Space Missions, Climate Research, Experts Warn
Rachel Feltman, Lee Billings, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio, Scientific American
NASA faces historic budget cuts that could shutter missions and stall vital research, prompting a bipartisan outcry from all of the agency’s living former science chiefs.
Aug 6, 2025, 10:00 AM
NASA Boosts Plans for Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
Lee Billings, Scientific American
Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030
Aug 5, 2025, 3:40 PM
Strong Support for NASA and Project Artemis Will Advance the U.S.
Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American
NASA needs clear support from the White House if we want to win the new space race
Aug 2, 2025, 4:00 PM
U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy Could Accelerate Weapons Proliferation
Alan J. Kuperman, Scientific American
The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results
Jul 30, 2025, 1:30 PM
Trump’s EPA Targets ‘Endangerment Finding’ Underlying Climate Change Policy for Reducing Carbon
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American
The Trump administration is releasing its proposal to undo the “endangerment finding,” the long-standing rationale and legal imperative for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act
Jul 29, 2025, 4:20 PM
Gravitational Wave Science Faces Budget Cuts Just Years After Breakthrough Discoveries
Lieke van Son, Scientific American
Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science
Jul 24, 2025, 2:00 PM
Polymetallic Nodules, a Source of Rare Metals, May Hold the Secrets of 'Dark Oxygen'
Clare Fieseler, Jason Jaacks, Scientific American
When researchers discovered evidence of “dark oxygen” last year, the news spread around the world, but the biggest challenge to the science comes from its funders
Jul 24, 2025, 2:00 PM
Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent
Meghan Bartels, Scientific American
Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in which the agencies are headed
Jul 23, 2025, 11:00 AM
Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
Tamlyn Hunt, Scientific American
My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.
Jul 22, 2025, 1:00 PM
Can U.S. Math Research Survive NSF Funding Cuts?
Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.
Jul 18, 2025, 2:30 PM
What Is Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Trump’s Blood Vessel Condition?
Meghan Bartels, Scientific American
After photographs showed President Donald Trump with swollen ankles and bruised hands, the White House revealed he has chronic venous insufficiency—a blood vessel disease that affects circulation in the legs
Jul 17, 2025, 9:18 PM
Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on All Americans
Matt Motta, Dominik Stecuła, Scientific American
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society
Jul 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation
Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American
History tells us what happens when great nations attack science
Jul 8, 2025, 2:00 PM
Addiction Risk Shows up in Children’s Brain Scans before Drug Use Starts
Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American
Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their first puff or sip
Jul 7, 2025, 3:15 PM
China’s Tianwen-3 Mission Could Beat the U.S. in the Race to Grab Mars Rocks
Andrew Jones, Scientific American
Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts
Jul 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Russia’s Space Program Is Another Casualty of the War in Ukraine
Eugene Gerden, Scientific American
To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But the war in Ukraine is making that help increasingly hard to find
Jul 1, 2025, 1:00 PM
Creating Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans at a Biosecure Laboratory
Naeem Amarsy, Jeffery DelViscio, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Rachel Feltman, Scientific American
This San Antonio, Tex., lab takes biosecurity seriously. Suit up with its scientists and go behind the scenes of the science of vaccine creation.
Jun 27, 2025, 10:00 AM
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