Funding for science is more than just the amount of money. To a large extent, the organizations that fund research set the ...

After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will ...

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No degree. No academic training. Not even money for university. How Jane Goodall went from waitress to world icon.

A member of the Nobel committee likened the discovery to Hermione Granger’s seemingly bottomless enchanted handbag in the ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Richard Robson was struck by an idea in 1989. Decades later, his story shows the importance of fundamental science.

BERLIN — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn . For others, it was a ...

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

As the name suggests, a protein treatment is a haircare product that’s formulated with proteins to help strengthen and repair ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...