With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in two weeks, professor Avi Loeb is debating whether our interstellar visitor is friend or ...
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...
Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Yifat Merbl of Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Systems Immunology has been selected, together with nine other world-renowned researchers, for Nature’s 10, ...
Neutrinos are tiny subatomic particles that barely interact with matter. They can pass through planets without stopping. The ...
Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. (SwRI) researchers now think they have found the answer to a puzzle that has lingered for nearly four ...
How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology — and scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published ...
Kevlar has met its match. For decades, it has been the gold standard for impact protection, from bulletproof vests to armored vehicles, and is still widely used. But scientists have now developed a ...