Nuclear fusion energy could become commercially viable by the early 2030s as scientists work to replicate the sun's power, potentially transforming energy.

New federal policies have created a temporary drop in new NIH awards that is challenging America’s biomedical research community.

I’m expecting our first baby in late spring, and my husband has been … a nightmare. Not in terms of being cruel to me—he’s just hyperfocused on me having the “perfect” pregnancy in a way that makes me ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

Responding to the challenges and opportunities afforded by academic retirement and on becoming/being a grandparent I, perhaps naively, have set out to write a book that explains how science works to ...

I’m a big crier. The tears flow when I’m feeling sad. Or grateful. Or frustrated. Awestruck, PMS-y, joyous, relieved…. You get the idea. I used to try and hide this tendency like it was something to ...

This will come as a surprise to no one, but exercise is really good for us. But why it works and how it works are far less understood. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores that with Stanford ...

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