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

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

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

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

A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite ...

Unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes are causing fundamental shifts in scientific research and outcomes.

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

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 ...

Most importantly, the widespread use of AI tools has resulted in hyperproduction of so-called “AI slop”: low-quality ...