On Jan. 28, 1986, the U.S. Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger exploded 46,000 feet above the ground 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven people inside. The causes of the disaster were fiercely ...

In December 2016, a flurry of headlines declared that “flashing lights could treat Alzheimer’s disease,” based on a single mouse study 1. The research was widely amplified by the media. But within a ...

Science journalism is about taking complex academic research and turning it into easy-to-read content that is still accurate. Aside from informing readers through evidence-based journalism, it aims to ...

We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...

As reports pile in about news outlets laying off their science reporters or shutting down altogether, it’s difficult to predict where science journalism is going. And it’s difficult to consolidate ...

Ben Deighton is a freelance writer in London and president of the World Federation of Science Journalists. In June 2025, a year-long investigation exposed an illegal trade smuggling timber from ...

The results of a survey mapping the views of science journalists on science journalism in Latin America and the Caribbean were released during the 12th World Conference of Science Journalists in ...

Having read, We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News, I was interested to learn more about its author, Eliot Higgins, and his prominent rise in the field of ...

In the years before mass censorship in Russia, the country’s science journalism community thrived. During this time, in 2016, a group of science communicators – officials from university science ...

Investors Lab from Science News helps you spot those shifts early by translating emerging science into clear insights about ...