These young scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are working to build a better world at every scale imaginable.
Japan's JT-60SA tokamak, verified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest fusion reactor by plasma volume at 160 ...
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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 ...
As nearly half of the world’s population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. But scientists and the natural world also managed to attract the public’s attention.
Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...
Ice-penetrating radar has revealed a landscape of valleys and ridges hidden under nearly two miles of ice in East Antarctica. Before the continent froze over about 34 million years ago, the region ...
Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its ...
The U.S.’s performance in the rankings is driven by high scores for outputs metrics, which include the number and share of ...
11 September 2023 - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will be no easy task. Fortunately, an Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) appointed by the United Nations ...
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 vocal ...
Actions to reduce poisoning and electrocution from power lines have stabilized the endangered Egyptian Vulture's population in the Balkans. These birds are often killed across their 14-country ...