The Energy Department opened its annual Office of Science Open Call on October 1, 2026, making up to $400 million available ...

IntroductionIn modern society, science has become an inseparable part of our lives.From elucidating natural phenomena to the ...

Science ignored the okapi for centuries while Indigenous communities in the Congo knew it well, and even after a skull ...

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Basic studies led to clinical and translational advances that no one could have predicted,” Robert Gallo writes of his work ...

Measurable human welfare has surged since the 1700s because societies applied reason, science, and humanism, not because ...

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...

Every October, the Nobel announcements trigger a familiar conversation in India: Why does India, with its enormous pool of scientific talent, rarely feature among them? Perhaps the more useful ...

Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature’s job satisfaction survey shows.

Umami is the fifth flavour to join the rather elite circle of our basic tastes alongside sweet, sour, salty and bitter. But ...

A new MIT study found that when left to its own devices, AI agents will invent games, build temples, draw mandalas, and ...

For more than 2,000 years, scientists have scratched their heads over one of the most basic mysteries of the natural world: ...