On Tuesday, July 8, over 20 scientists from research institutions across the nation — whose grants have been canceled by the Trump administration — showed up to the Rayburn House Office Building on ...

Sumit Chanda, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research who focuses on pandemics, has made a career out of preparing for disaster. But Chanda faced a disaster of a different kind ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had ...

In 1955, Dr. Millard D. Seeley of the University of Arizona chemistry department sent letters to the principals of 38 high schools in Southern Arizona inviting their students to participate in the ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the farthest reaches of the ocean. A teen from Ireland may have found the solution to rid world's oceans from the microplastics that are near impossible to ...

Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. | A few dozen scientists protested the cancelling of their research grants by the US government at a ‘science fair’ staged yesterday in Washington D.C. The event, ...

Ethan Albright with a rainbow trout he caught on one of his bio lures; a close-up of the lures fresh out of a mold. Photos courtesy Ethan Albright “I haven’t been able to get out on the boat yet to ...

Sending astronauts to the red planet will be a decades-long activity and cost many billions of dollars. So why should NASA undertake such a bold mission? A new report published Tuesday, titled “A ...

More than 85 veteran climate scientists have pushed back against a Trump administration report downplaying the severity of climate change, submitting more than 400 pages in public comments to the ...