People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

How BioRender and CEO Shiz Aoki are turning a standard visual language for biology into must-have AI infrastructure, from ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

The reporters analyzed 35 years of grants funded by the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, ...

From fish to Phish, Science Friday has had a big year. Our staff chose their favorite stories and projects from 2025.

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of ...

What does an ideal computer science building at Stanford look like? For Benji Welner ’27, it looks a lot like the newest addition to Stanford’s campus — the almost finished Computing and Data Science ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...