Most Americans say they trust scientists to act in the public’s best interests, though confidence is lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

The outlook has brightened for federal science budgets, but political appointees are likely to have a big say in how that ...

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements ...

Machine learning is revolutionizing fundamental science by tackling long-standing mathematical challenges. A key example is ...

Scientists are trying to tame the chaos of modern artificial intelligence by doing something very old fashioned: drawing a ...

Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...

Exercise appears to spark a whole-body anti-aging cascade, and scientists have now mapped out how it happens—and how a simple oral compound can mimic it. By following volunteers through rest, intense ...

"We have built a gear train in which a light-driven gear sets the entire chain in motion. The gears can also convert rotation into linear motion, perform periodic movements and control microscopic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...