And it’s exactly what happened this year the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As 2025 comes to a close, here are a few bite-sized stories that capture both the ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launches two small spacecraft to Mars to study magnetic fields, solar wind and the risks and limits of lower-cost space science.

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

Created at a time when bird populations were declining drastically, experts say the once-yearly count is crucial, as the ...

Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen spent about five months creating a pair of 3D-printed smart glasses that can ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Ava Hauck, a junior at Dickinson High School, created an AI diagnostic device to detect hematological diseases for a science ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that ...

A microscopic "Christmas tree" is a seasonal highlight of a remarkable science project that sees a quirky comparison of vast ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...