Our overlapping Trump and COVID eras have seen a fairly sharp downturn in public trust in scientists. Around one in 10 Americans report less support for science now than they did before COVID. That ...

The Trump administration’s decision to fire the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation is another blow to American science that threatens the country’s global leadership, multiple ...

Pew Research Center has had a longstanding interest in studying Americans’ views of the impact of science. A majority of Americans (61%) say science has had a mostly positive effect on society. This ...

A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and reshaping our understanding of how life evolves. The newly emerging Extended Evolutionary ...

Disagreements about research results aren't often aired in the open, but this year saw its fair share of public scientific controversies. Debates between scientists are usually confined to the pages ...

From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year Joe Spring, Riley Black, Shi En Kim, Dan Falk, Christian Elliott and ...