The Sciences

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Despite funding woes, American scientists are finding reasons for optimism

Scientific American used expert recommendations and data analysis to identify 28 exceptional early-career researchers

Members of the National Science Board, which the U.S. Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination

When it comes to health advice, more people trust the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association than they do federal health agencies, according to a new poll

Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have plans to rebuild and recover

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

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are focusing on for 2026

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

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday