Science news this week April 5, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

In contrast to an oral presentation, a “poster” is a visual representation of the research project that must convey the essence of your message. In effect, it “talks” for the researcher. The poster ...

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An exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne featuring Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi's work has been postponed indefinitely. Sabsabi, who is based in Western ...

Ms. Boscolo, who has spent years working at the intersection of climate science and energy policy, is quick to point out the vulnerability of renewable energy infrastructure. Dams, solar farms, and ...

Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal ...

The study results, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, represent the first known occurrence of a shark actively producing sound. The sounds were first observed by marine biologist ...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are vital to national economies. However, despite ongoing efforts, women and girls still encounter barriers which limit their ...

The science that underlies the health and prosperity of people and countries is under attack in our southern neighbour. As demonstrated by the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to the ...

One by one, at a Clearwater town hall on Saturday, Pinellas County constituents took turns addressing a "missing" poster of Rep. Ana Paulina Luna, R-Fla., expressing discontent with President ...

The steady torrent of spaghetti science helps to demonstrate that deep questions lurk in our ordinary routines, and that there are plenty of hungry physicists who can't stop asking them.

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...