A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ground than Republicans.

Running for nearly a century, this quiet experiment proves a “solid” can flow, drop by drop, while generations of scientists wait, watch, and wonder when the next moment will finally arrive.

The symbolic Doomsday Clock has been maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947.

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S. is faring.

This year will be a big one for quantum computing, at least according to the United Nations: 2025 is officially the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology,” a worldwide initiative to raise awareness of technological progress and ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

I n the past year, more than half of the leaders of the Institutes and Centers (IC) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as many other career government scientists across the agency, have left as part of President Trump’s agenda to reform and reduce the size of the federal government.

Here are the world’s rarest and most bewildering medical conditions, disorders that defy logic, challenge science, and reshape the human experience in dramatic ways. From bodies turning to stone to minds bending time and identity,

The FutBotMX Cup, which will run from April through June 2026, invites teams of students, professionals and the general public from across the world to build and operate robot soccer teams.