Stories by Dan Vergano

The Trump administration’s war with Iran over its nuclear ambitions raises new questions about the country’s uranium stockpile

Richard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his long ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The U.S. Senate is holding a confirmation hearing today for wellness influencer Casey Means, the Trump administration’s pick for surgeon general

Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health

After a year of RFK, Jr., heading the Department of Health and Human Services, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement has upended science and medicine

The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

The National Institutes of Health’s move to end support for research using fetal human tissue is “clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” one expert says

The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

This clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau would withhold vaccination from some babies, sparking ethical concerns

A look at how evolving national health policies could reshape the future of kids’ care, from vaccines to essential treatments.

Lawmakers aim to support science research despite cuts proposed by the Trump administration

Health officials have agreed to assess pending medical research grants after a Trump administration antidiversity purge put them on ice

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced it would “pause” leases for five large offshore wind farms, imperiling the fast-growing clean energy industry

A look back at 2025’s biggest science stories—from federal upheaval and public health setbacks to climate policy reversals and groundbreaking discoveries in space.

Health officials on Thursday announced a slew of measures that seek to restrict access to gender-affirming health care for young transgender people in the U.S.

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

Jared Isaacman—the presumptive next leader of NASA—answered questions about his plans for the future of U.S. space exploration on Wednesday

“It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert

New WHO guidance calls for a worldwide obesity treatment “ecosystem” to ensure that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are used fairly

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

A new report from the HHS that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors updates a similar, widely criticized report in May

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relationship Summers pursued with a student

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised records related to vanished pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. More records are promised on a rolling basis