Senior physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles ...

Fifty-five percent is the amount that the National Science Foundation (NSF) may lose in funding, if the federal government’s ...

Gilead has been a leader in HIV innovation for decades. Now, we're proud to share that one of our researchers, Moupali Das, has been awarded the AAAS Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

When 16 attorneys general sued the Trump administration over its cancelation of National Institutes of Health research grants ...

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The Hurricane Hunter planes that fly into storms can also be used to generate three-dimensional storm images, but the ...

Scientists at several federal agencies are losing access to scientific literature published by Springer Nature, which ...

A former Colquitt County High School valedictorian — now a professor at Northeastern University — has been named a lifetime fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time ...

Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...