Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research maps 55 million papers and patents to find the studies that truly changed science. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Some ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs — the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics — and a research team including faculty at ...

This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners were announced Saturday (April 18) as the red carpet opened at the annual gala in Los Angeles, a globally broadcast ceremony often dubbed the "Oscars of Science," ...

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

A piece of Oak Ridge history is still helping shape the future of cancer treatment 80 years later. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory first shipped carbon-14 from the X-10 Graphite Reactor to ...

Welcome to the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair, our annual showcase of researchers who reshaped how we understand the world, tackled problems worth solving, and pushed their fields forward. This year’s ...

History shows that breakthroughs are often sparked by innovative instruments, and AI’s ability to help design them might be its most important scientific contribution. The Engine of Scientific ...

Few pursuits in human history match the raw ambition of trying to understand the cosmos. From ancient stargazers etching constellations onto cave walls to physicists detecting ripples in the fabric of ...

Children aged 8–15 have collaborated with leading neuroscientists and winners of The Brain Prize to review articles explaining breakthrough brain research in a new Frontiers for Young Minds collection ...

The winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, UC Santa Barbara’s David J. Gross was cited for “a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, from the strong force to string ...