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

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

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 ...

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

This advance could pave the way for improved imaging and analysis methods in materials science and biology. Traditionally, diamond production involves converting carbon at enormous pressures and ...

Scientists are constantly pushing the boundaries of knowledge and possibility. Over the last year, research teams around the world have broken ground, experimented, invented, and pushed us a little ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...