The Trump administration’s cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration.

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

Science is supposed to make the world feel more understandable, but sometimes it does the opposite. Ancient viruses frozen in ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

The root cause of medical startup failure is not a lack of resources or regulatory complexity, but how founders, boards and ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering could one day help cure diseases, design new materials, optimize supply chains ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...