Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I've ever written. I'm a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The Trump administration has set its sights on basic science. Last week, the National Science Foundation revealed plans to lay off between a quarter and half of ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty?

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

In this exclusive video ahead of the upcoming American Society of Hematology annual meeting, Vijay G. Sankaran, MD, PhD, of ...