Nancy Shute, Editor in Chief, discusses big advances across science in 2025 as well as the assault on science by the Trump administration.

These five early- and mid-career researchers are shaking up what we know about the Arctic, black holes and beyond.

Expectations of continued success for American science were shaken this year when the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in funding and fired thousands of scientists.

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Skin is a barrier meant to keep small invaders out. Products making their way across it should boost that mission.

You are participating in a holiday gift exchange with a few classmates. You each write down your own name on a slip of paper and fold it up. Then all the students place their names into a single hat.

Simple chemistry could give the reindeer his famously bright snout. But physics would make it look different colors from the ground.