Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written ...

The NAS Award for Scientific Discovery is presented every two years to recognize an accomplishment or discovery in basic research, achieved within the previous five years, that is expected to have a ...

The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ...

The spacecraft carries nine science instruments ... Many solar system missions have made significant discoveries during such flybys, from the earliest probes of the 1970s to BepiColombo’s ...

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into what is ...

Feb. 21, 2025 — Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Breast cancer incidence trends in U.S. women under 40 vary by geography and supports incorporating location information with established risk factors ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

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America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that ...

Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science ... Her skeleton is about 40% complete, and has been studied since its discovery in 1974. In a quest to learn more about what ...