"For 18 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge has empowered middle school students to bring science to life," said Torie Clarke, 3M's executive vice president and chief public affairs officer. "This ...

Mr. Patel is a staff editor in Opinion who covers science. America is at risk of losing a generation of scientists. Amid sweeping cuts to federal research funding by the Trump administration, job ...

Jack Castelli had it all figured out. The University of Washington doctoral student had spent the past three years developing new gene-editing techniques that could spur immunity to the virus that ...

MEXT award recognizes young scientists “who have made notable research achievements” for studies that are “pioneering” or “based on original perspectives.” Teshima leads the Munich-based office of the ...

Shohamy is director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University and co-director of Columbia’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science. I recently sat with a young scientist in my ...

As an aspiring academic scientist, the next step in my career is to obtain a postdoctoral fellowship. This process cannot be delayed, as research trainee awards are only available for a period of time ...

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in her family to ...

America has a new "Top Young Scientist." Kevin Tang, an eighth grade student at Cedarlane Academy in Hacienda Heights, California, was crowned the winner of the 2025 Young Scientist Challenge on Oct.