The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

Watch an engaging conversation between ACS Central Science Editor-in-Chief Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi and C&EN Editor-in-Chief Nick Ishmael-Perkins, which took place at ACS Spring 2024, in New Orleans.

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly ...

The MSc includes a substantial research component, which provides opportunity to work on original research with leading planetary science, astrophysics or space science researchers at UCL and Birkbeck ...

Experts who study gender bias in the sciences say the Nobel’s gender gap reflects the larger barriers to success faced by women in science — and that science is poorer for it. The men who ...

Popper, a dang good philosopher of critical rationalism, presumably never set a fastest lap or won a grand prix, but he knew science. This story originally appeared in Volume 25 of Road & Track.

Cooking with electric rather than solid-fuel stoves can reduce carbon emissions and indoor air pollution, offering climate and health co-benefits. To make electric cooking a viable clean fuel ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to three scientists who have help unravel some of the enduring secrets of proteins, the building blocks of life.

What does the rise of the AI Nobel mean for the future of science? “These prizes reflect two different ways of reckoning with the relationship between AI and science:… Receive a weekly dose of ...