COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - 2025 marked a big year for scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. Researchers found that Taylor ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

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

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

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

We carry these mixed feelings into 2026, which is slated to be another great—yet perhaps troubled—year for science. No list ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.