From PCR and CRISPR to autophagy and targeted cancer therapies, scientists share the discoveries that shaped their work and ...

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

The year 2025 was huge for science. Researchers around the world made discoveries that could change how we live, work, and understand the universe. Scientists found over 128 new moons around Saturn, ...

Science has given us countless moments where reality proves stranger than fiction. From DNA’s twisted ladder to the mind-bending nature of quantum physics, scientific discoveries that will blow your ...

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2 million to eight innovative projects, including ones with Northwestern Engineering researchers, through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...