Science News covers announcements as they are made: trial readouts, drug and device approvals, major retractions, mission milestones and government funding decisions. Each item states who announced it and what evidence accompanied it. Read by researchers, clinicians and journalists needing the day's developments with provenance intact.
Science News covers announcements as they are made: trial readouts, drug and device approvals, major retractions, mission milestones and government funding decisions. Each item states who announced it and what evidence accompanied it. Read by researchers, clinicians and journalists needing the day's developments with provenance intact.
Newsroom choices run on news values and inherited framing: a 2021 study found 69.5 percent of headlines on mouse studies dropped the mice, and a 2026 experiment tested a fix.
Scientists host most science podcasts, listening hit record shares of Americans in 2024, and the first big census of the genre traced its climb from 2004 to 2018.
Youth science news is its own journalism. One newsroom has rewritten research for readers as young as nine since 2003, tuning vocabulary and adding teacher aids without weakening the reporting.
Why landmark results sometimes collapse when other scientists repeat them, and what open science is doing about it.
The SELECT trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2023, found semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by a fifth in adults with existing heart disease and overweight — a benefit independent of diabetes.
Fossils are almost never dated directly. Geologists date the rock around them instead, and the method depends entirely on what happens to be nearby.
Roughly ninety percent of the excess energy trapped by greenhouse gases ends up in the sea — and a global fleet of autonomous floats, plus satellite altimetry, measures it.
Since 2022, infrared surveys have turned up galaxies that appear surprisingly bright and mature within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang — and cosmologists are still arguing about why.
Laser altimetry from ICESat-2 and radar from Europe's Sentinel constellation track Antarctica's floating ice fronts from orbit — and their measurements define what 'collapsing' means.