2026 has quickly become a year of both scientific accomplishments and setbacks. Still, these discoveries offer fascinating ...

From cancer cures to maps of the universe ...

That's why so many discoveries are made not in the field, but in museum backrooms, among wonders half-forgotten for decades.

Golden apple snails have eyes that are similar to humans’—and they can regenerate an amputated eye in just a month. Scientists uncovered a gene related to that process, laying the groundwork for more ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Delaware, has been elected a 2025 Fellow of the ...

"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the existence of a creator God.