From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

This year, new research in food science and health uncovered surprising benefits in everyday ingredients — and took a hard ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet.

The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agencies like NASA, NIH and NOAA. NPR's Rob Stein and Katia Riddle spoke to scientists ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

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

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

Trump administration officials say changes to federal agencies engaged in science were made in the interests of better science that benefits more Americans. Many scientists we spoke with disagree.

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...