As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

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

More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

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Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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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.

SOCORRO, NM - 1999: These 27 moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array, take in radio signals, some extremely faint, from throughout the cosmos, 1999 near Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA is a ...