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 ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GSK alum Dr. Ellen Horste’s time investigating fundamental biological questions prepared her for a career in the emerging field of gene therapy. Ellen Horste’s job is a little bit like packing for ...

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.

Science in Japan has been honored with two Nobel Prizes this year, but as NHK World's Ishizaka Sae Christine Hall explains, ...

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...

Throughout 2025, the science establishment has warned that the Trump administration poses a lethal threat to “American science expertise as we know it.” The alarums have been overwrought and ...