Gary Marshall is the SEO editor at STAT. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was the subject of a revelatory profile here. His agenda was so sweeping, we created a tracker to document the ...

From fish to Phish, Science Friday has had a big year. Our staff chose their favorite stories and projects from 2025. This year got off to an exciting start as we welcomed Flora Lichtman back to ...

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it through somewhat … okay. The Trump administration terminated billions of ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.