In science news around the world, the second annual March for Science features rallies in cities around the world to support the use of scientific analysis and evidence in public policy. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, broadens the scope of its investigation into ties between the alcohol industry and NIH's alcoholism institute to include funding decisions by the institute's director. Members of the United Nations's International Maritime Organization in London agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping to 50% of 2008 levels by 2050. The U.S. National Science Foundation awards its prestigious prize for young scientists to Kristina Olson of the University of Washington in Seattle, the first psychologist ever to receive it and the first woman so honored since 2004. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces the first approval of artificial intelligence–based disease screening software that doesn't need a clinician to interpret the results—a computer program that analyzes digital images of a patient's retina to detect diabetic retinopathy, a common complication of diabetes that causes blindness.

在世界各地的科学新闻中，第二届每年的“科学三月”将在世界各地的城市举行集会，以支持在公共政策中使用科学分析和证据。位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）扩大了其对酒精工业与NIH酒精中毒研究所之间关系的调查范围，以包括该研究所所长的资助决定。伦敦联合国国际海事组织的成员同意到2050年将国际航运中的温室气体排放量减少到2008年水平的50％。美国国家科学基金会将其享有盛誉的年轻科学家奖授予西雅图华盛顿大学的克里斯蒂娜·奥尔​​森（Kristina Olson）。 ，这是有史以来第一位获得此殊荣的心理学家，也是自2004年以来如此荣幸的第一位女性。