The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Researchers have recovered more than 700 fossil specimens.

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs — the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Scientific discovery is often tedious, expensive, incremental trial and error, but the advent of artificial intelligence is ...

Golden apple snails have eyes that are similar to humans’—and they can regenerate an amputated eye in just a month. Scientists uncovered a gene related to that process, laying the groundwork for more ...

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

Katalin Karikó thought the call was a joke. It was 3 a.m. on October 2, 2023. Her husband answered the phone. As someone in building maintenance, “he quite frequently gets calls for fixing this and ...

Science has always felt like an endless frontier, with one mystery leading to another forever. But this episode explores a ...