Dan Vergano

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Dan Vergano

Four cloned red wolves that fell out of the spotlight—hidden amid “de-extinction” hoopla about vanished dire wolves—tell the real secret to saving threatened species. And the answer isn’t a magical cloning technology. This month Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences announced the birth late last year of three gray wolf puppies with 15 gene variants that belonged to dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus); this large carnivore went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

2 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Dan Vergano

Black lung is a cruel disease. Incurable, it scars and hardens lungs, makes breathing hurt and leads to tuberculosis, heart disease and cancer. Still a recurring threat to miners, it is preventable by controlling exposure to dust in mines. We know that thanks to federal scientists the Trump administration now aims to wipe out. That’s a mistake that threatens everyone. In March, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Dan Vergano

Slashed funding, mass firings and political edicts over what can be studied or spoken recently prompted an open letter that was signed by a sizable swath of the nation’s leading researchers, all members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. “The voice of science must not be silenced,” read the letter, which was released on March 31.

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Dan Vergano

Killing civilians. Endangering pilots. Gross negligence. Breaking the law. Take your pick which Signal group chat calamity is worse for the Trump administration. Listing all the scandals is almost as challenging as finding an explanation for them. But at its heart sits a familiar, dangerous, flawed peril of political psychology: groupthink.

3 weeks ago | exbulletin.com | Dan Vergano

The United States scientists express themselves against the “ climate of fear '' hooking American researchDespite the fears that speech makes objectives, the best researchers warn that “the wholesale assault of the Trump administration on American science” harm the nationThe demonstrators participate in a “stand up for science” rally at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2025.