Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

AI-driven scientific innovation accelerated in 2025 — fueling major progress in fields ranging from robotics to health care.

Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting ...

AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

Cuts to scientific research focused disproportionately on research around diversity equity and inclusion. Some researchers say we're just beginning to understand the impact.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) strongly supports the use of comprehensive scientific and engineering input into the development and evaluation of policy options. ACS also encourages the use of ...

Former Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth resigned after going on a tirade about President Trump following the election. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientific ...

In 2014 astronomers announced a whopper of a discovery: primordial waves from the earliest moments of the big bang. The South Pole telescope results validated the long-standing but still-shaky ...

Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without ...

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Henry Kauffman lamented, “Why are we so poor at managing our key economic institutions while at the same time so accomplished in medicine, engineering and ...