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The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.

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Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...

Rice University has launched an institute to accelerate discoveries in brain science and health. Why it matters: As rates of ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue, kill thousands of people per year. In 2023 alone, malaria killed over ...

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been given to three scientists for discovering how our immune systems protect us from microbes.

The symbiotic relationship between the federal government and our universities — one that has delivered so much for America, ...

A Century Later' revisits the pages of Popular Science to see how yesterday’s bold predictions and groundbreaking discoveries have aged. A hundred years ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science ‘has become ...