A review of a year of The Scientist’s Postdoc Portraits series celebrates the diverse community of more than 200 researchers ...

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With the challenges we face daily — from traffic jams and busy schedules to massive misinformation and funding interruptions to science — resilience is key. But achieving it can sometimes seem ...

Tackling some extraordinary scientific challenges is one cause for celebration. Building a multidisciplinary community of conservationists is another. Doing both at the same time? Well, that’s just ...

November 13, 2024 - Human and environmental risk assessments for chemicals use a limited number of model species to test for potential toxicity. Due to limited testing resources, an international push ...

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The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States. Funding cuts, academic lay-offs and vaccine-sceptic policies have widely been seen as an attack on science, ...

Science & Nature Stories Explore Discover featured stories about science and nature from across the Smithsonian.

“You’ve heard a lot recently about Tylenol, also known by the generic name acetaminophen, and what effects it might have on unborn babies,” a blog post by Dr. Mary Nguyen, a fellow at the American ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we missed. This ...