This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

Dispersing federal research funding, largely concentrated at private universities on the coasts, to the rest of the country ...

In a wide range of social species, when an animal is sick, it takes itself away from its group. Ant pupae are unable to move, ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Losing Chai left Kelly Anderson with a kind of absence that stayed in the room long after her cat was gone. When she began ...

With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the ...

Penn State researchers created seven new high-entropy oxides by removing oxygen during synthesis, enabling metals that normally destabilize to form rock-salt ceramics. Machine learning helped identify ...

The Wellcome Photography Prize awards photographers who show how science affects human health around the world.

Researchers have discovered a new way to grow graphene that deliberately adds structural defects to enhance its usefulness in ...

Former US public health officials are sounding alarms about significant changes being made to the country’s vaccine policy under the Trump administration.

Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of ...

Arthur Murray says his dogs Stella and Mella are "100% physically identical." Their personalities? Less similar.