Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years

“We’re very thrilled with this significant new investment, the largest investment in graduate students and postdocs in over 21 years,” says Kaitlin Kharas, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, ... Read More

Scientist Says Universe Is Actually Exploding

A version of this article appears in the October 10, 1931 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ... Read More

Surveys of Scientists at Federal Agencies

UCS has been documenting the problem of political interference in science in the US federal government since its landmark 2004 Scientist Statement on Scientific ... surveyed scientists at federal ... Read More

The biggest science news stories of 2023 as chosen by New Scientist

From extraordinary heat to stunning space imagery, New Scientist has brought you extensive coverage of the biggest developments, discoveries and events in science ... that made us rethink the ... Read More

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NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath ... Read More

Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study

There's a lot at stake for a scientist whose name is or isn't mentioned in journalistic coverage of their work. News media play a key role in disseminating new scientific findings ... perception of ... Read More

Environmental Science News

Apr. 17, 2024 — The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform ... Read More

The US scientists bringing back the Woolly Mammoth - Tech & Science Daily podcast

The US scientists bringing back the Woolly Mammoth - Tech & Science Daily podcast - Colossal Biosciences explain the complex science behind ‘de-extinction’ and reveal their target date for the first ... Read More

Reuters Science News Summary

Researchers now have unlocked the genome of the Arabica species and traced its origins to a natural mating between two other coffee species an estimated 610,000 to one million years ago in the forests ... Read More

Science and Democracy

As a result, science and democracy are often targeted by those who see their bottom lines or political power at stake. These attacks do real harm when they succeed—and those of us already carrying the ... Read More

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The newly developed actuators have a novel type of shell structure and use a ... New Study Uses Machine Learning to Bridge the Reality Gap in Quantum Devices Jan. 9, 2024 — A study has used the ... Read More

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Shifting weather caused by climate change, especially drought and heat, is linked to a rise in the number of children being raised outside of their biological parents' households in sub-Saharan ... Read More