Outlet track record
Scientific American
U.S. center-left (science-advocacy, pro-evidence)
Scientific American is a long-running U.S. popular-science magazine. LabX Media Group, a Canadian publisher, bought it from Springer Nature in mid-2026. Its coverage leans center-left on science policy. It is currently broadly critical of the Trump administration, especially over federal science funding, public health and climate policy.
Owned byLabX Media Group, a Canadian science and laboratory publishing company, bought it from Springer Nature. Search results report the sale closed on June 24, 2026. Before that, Springer Nature owned it. Springer Nature is a Berlin-based publisher that is majority-owned by the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It is also publicly listed.
LeaningU.S. center-left (science-advocacy, pro-evidence)
On the administrationbroadly critical
5average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun