We carry these mixed feelings into 2026, which is slated to be another great—yet perhaps troubled—year for science. No list ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Plenty of the best horror games are scary in the way they present players with dangerous situations that are clear to ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. By Aatish Bhatia, Amy Fan, Jonah Smith and Irena Hwang In the past decade, the National Institutes of Health ...

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper ...

This year as usual, Science News covered the big advances across science, medicine and technology, including the next quantum revolution, soaring rates of cancer in young people, the addictive lure of ...

The CDC is instructing scientists to end all research involving monkeys by the end of the year, in a move that will impact around 200 macaques and an unknown number of studies, Science first reported.

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...