This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

If formalized, the rule would make political priorities the prime determinant of what science gets funded and sideline the ...

Download the June 2026 long read podcast. Peptides — short chains of amino acids — have become huge online. The popularity of ...

Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science-communication researcher that they thought trust in science was low in their countries. Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

Alzheimer’s isn’t just one problem—it’s a tangled mix of biology, aging, and overall health. That’s why drugs targeting a single factor have fallen short, even as new treatments show modest benefits.

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

A young mother remains in hospital after being bitten by a shark at Coogee beach in Sydney on Saturday morning. Leah Stewart, 35, was swimming about 30 metres offshore when the shark – believed to be ...

SPCX seeks a $75 billion raise at up to a $2 trillion valuation, positioning it as potentially the largest IPO in history. Michael Burry compares the SpaceX frenzy to dot-com as the S-1 shows $18.7 ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has made awe-inspiring achievements since its founding more than two decades ago and has big ideas—colonies on Mars, orbital AI data centers, rapidly reusable rockets—for the future ...