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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts said the poll reflects a mistrust in leaders at federal health agencies. HHS said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Public confidence that career scientists at federal health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug ...

The IAEA is training early-career scientists to assess the impacts of ocean acidification and pollution, helping countries respond to environmental changes. Marine biodiversity faces growing pressure ...

Yasin El Abiead (left), Elia Mascolo (center), and Gabriela Lobinska (right) are fellows in the U.S.–Austrian APART-USA Fellowship program. Photographed at the The Austrian Academy of Sciences in ...

The deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects the planet from harmful radiation, was viewed as an existential threat to humanity for decades. But today, you rarely hear about it. Ever ...

The Trump administration's cuts to federal research funding have left many scientists in a precarious place. Harvest Public Media's Kate Grumke asked researchers in the central U.S. how they're ...