From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...

Biologists learned lots about animals and plants this year, and their findings could inspire better robots, medicine and environmental technologies Carlyn Kranking - Associate Web Editor, Science When ...

Drug development researchers generally want the same outcome: to find new and better ways to improve health. But sometimes, inspiration for those new medicines comes from seemingly unlikely places — ...

Russell Funk had no idea how much his work would strike a nerve. But then came a blizzard of news stories and supportive e-mails from hundreds of scientists — along with a critical backlash. Funk and ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It may sound strange, but future Nobel Prizes, and other scientific achievement awards, one day might well be given out to ...

David Baker receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, FNR Luxembourg, and the Qatar Nation Research Fund. Justin J.W. Powell has ...

Science is littered with serendipitous findings — such as Alexander Fleming’s chance observation that a mould killed the bacteria he was culturing, which led to the discovery of antibiotics. Now, a ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...

The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that it would cap “Facilities and Administrative” costs at 15%, a significant reduction for many institutions that use grants from the federal agency ...

In 2023, researchers made plenty of discoveries for the record books — and the history books. This year’s scientific superlatives shed new light on our ancient ancestors, our planet and the animals we ...

If you want a scientific discovery to make you famous, you need two things to happen. First, said discovery has to be important enough to change the world as we know it. Second, it has to be pretty ...