Astrophysicist Catherine Cesarsky was selected as the winner of the 2020 Tate Award for International Leadership in physics, according to an announcement by The American Institute of Physics (AIP).
The National Academy of Sciences made public the proceedings of a symposium that explored whether U.S. innovation needs an update much like the creation of a blueprint for scientific research through Vannevar Bush’s report Science: The Endless Frontier, 75 years ago.
Brown graduate Jessica Meir still has a chance to achieve her childhood dream of exploring the Moon with her selection for NASA’s Artemis program.
One thing is certain about cotton farming in today's world, it is nothing like prior generations experienced.
Forests are often taken for granted which is a mistake given the number of benefits they provide.
A recent discovery by University of Texas (UT) researchers promises to help create more effective cancer treatment by adding to the understanding of how cancer-fighting T cells work.
A giant volcano may be sitting in Alaska’s Aleutian chain that dwarfs the nearby Okmok volcano, which has been implicated in the year BCE 43 disruption of the Roman Republic.
A report in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT News said scientists on the university campus are researching how altering the behavior of millions of microbes existing in the human body can be used to combat diseases.
Researchers have developed a gel that can change its color with changes in light much like an octopus can in the sea, which could have military and other applications for producing camouflage.
Tulane University Department of Psychiatry has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Mental Health to continue its work on early intervention following an episode of psychosis in a young patient, which can change the outcome.
A research team at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, has come up with some new answers to the question of how life evolved on Earth.
One of the most understated fights in the medical field is that of obesity, which is steadily rising to the forefront of American concerns.
Thanks to a couple of Rice University engineers, a roadmap for converting carbon monoxide into acetic acid has been discovered.
There have been some preconceived notions about a mass extinction event 66 million years ago and its impact on Patagonia that will need to be rewritten following recent research.
The oldest known python fossils, recently discovered in Germany, challenge current theories about early snake evolution.
Finding, identifying and cataloguing 13,000 dinosaur bones deposited in a single bonebed in Wyoming requires a detective team.
Dr. Roger Billings, scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, recently appeared on the children's lecture series Science Live to discuss speaker technology.
Researchers at Stanford are working to develop a single-dose vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 that could potentially be stored at room temperature.
A diverse group of researchers is working to turn new discoveries about the trillions of microbes in the body into treatments for a range of diseases.
A new recycling method may reduce enormous amounts of waste from the annual 100 million tons of multilayer plastic produced worldwide.