Mr. Watney is a co-chief executive of the Institute for Progress. In the early 1990s, Katalin Kariko was obsessed with an idea most of her fellow scientists dismissed: Could messenger RNA, or mRNA ...

In the July 1931 issue of Popular Science, writer George H. Waltz described television as “the miracle field of sending pictures through the air.” Nearly a century later, television ...

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Mar. 28, 2025 — Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years.

Apr. 1, 2025 — While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller ... An Efficient Self ...

RIT offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs that prepare you for professional work in research laboratories and industrial settings. The materials science graduate program seeks to provide ...

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery. An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can ...

The federal grant freeze and cuts to the workforce have disrupted scientific research in the United States (see Nature https://doi.org/n9nm; 2025). But these changes ...

In this week’s news roundup, two NASA astronauts finally return to Earth after nine unexpected months in space, gray seals hold their breath for more than an hour, and penguin poop panics krill.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...