Discovery, Imagination, and the Future As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the National Academy of Sciences ...

Welcome to Hogwarts! In this program, budding witches and wizards will get an introduction to Mendelian genetics and then explore the magic that surrounds us every day. Join your fellow ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin) and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero ...

The advent of the internet has benefitted humanity in many ways. It has also caused some chaos, as people try to discern fact from fiction and sense from nonsense shared online. Many scientists have ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei – the center part of atoms, which make up all matter – were more ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...