From PCR and CRISPR to autophagy and targeted cancer therapies, scientists share the discoveries that shaped their work and ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2 million to eight innovative projects, including ones with Northwestern Engineering researchers, through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research ...

Identifying the underlying cause of extreme events such as floods, heavy downpours or tornados is immensely difficult and can take a concerted effort by scientists over several decades to arrive at ...

We've been living on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years, and we still don't fully understand it. That's not a ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) launched its Dissemination and Implementation Science Core in 2025. Starting Feb. 9, the core will offer a new Dissemination and Implementation ...