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Expanding student science literacy with Science News Learning

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Group photo showing the three 2024-25 Science News Learning Ambassadors. Chris Ferenzi / Society for Science Cara Hale-Hanes, Rosalyn Parson and Tandi Steffens are STEM educators who use their expertise teaching science literacy with current, real-world examples. This school year, they have served as Ambassadors for the Science News Learning program. As Science News Learning […]

Meet Nigeria’s human flycatchers luring bloodsucking insects in the name of science | Global health

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Every Monday and Tuesday morning, Bosede Oluwaokere, 48, wakes up at home in Ilorin city in west Nigeria, gets dressed and walks to a nearby stream. She sits beneath a tree and pulls her skirt up around her thighs. For the next six hours she stays in the same spot waiting for a specific type […]

Fairmount, Science Center Full STEAM Ahead

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Science and art will soon collide at the Fairmount Center for the Arts’ Chardon classroom, with the organization partnering with Great Lakes Science Center this fall for homeschool programming. Science and art will soon collide at the Fairmount Center for the Arts’ Chardon classroom, with the organization partnering with Great Lakes Science Center this fall […]

Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.

Young American scientists like me are at risk. This must stop

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Tricia Hall Collins | Guest Columnist Stephen Colbert fires back at Paramount, Trump over ‘Late Show’ axing Stephen Colbert blasted Paramount and President Donald Trump after “Late Show” cancellation. Tricia Hall Collins is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. I found my purpose in science […]

Springer Nature screens The Martian to promote science communication

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Photo: Everyman Springer Nature brought outer space to London’s King’s Cross with a screening of the Matt Damon film The Martian at Everyman on the Canal, as part of an initiative to promote the importance of science communication. Employees at the Springer Nature London office chose the movie. In a short introductory film played before the main […]

UW science research helped create Ozempic. Now it faces cuts

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

The University of Wisconsin has been tied up with our state’s industries ever since Prof. Stephen Babcock invented 2% milk. Jordan Ellenberg | Special to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Cuts to health research could impact clinical studies and trials at the NIH The Trump administration wants to cut health spending in the coming year, and plans […]

CU Boulder scientists have been lichen Indigo Girls so much

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

Keyboard jockeys with a head full of music and a history of trips to the principal’s office in eighth grade for general smart-assery, present company included, love to come across an odd phrase and declare it a great name for a band. A couple of University of Colorado botanists have turned that construction on its […]

The Burning Man Of Brain Science And How Croatia Became Ground Zero For AI’s Next Breakthoughs

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

TOPSHOT – A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International … More Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. Humanity is in a race against time to harness the colossal emerging power of artificial intelligence for the good of all, while averting dire […]

From the Courtroom to the Internet, the Fight Over Federal Science Is On

Christopher RunnerJuly 24, 2025

It’s been six months since President Trump took the oath of office and his administration began its all-out effort to gut federal science—though it’s understandable if it feels like even longer. If you’ve been following my blog posts, including my monthly round-ups, you know the relentless pace of attacks on science we’re seeing. My colleagues […]

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