“It is through patient, painstaking work, driven by curiosity and pursued through personal dedication and sacrifice, that ...

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the ...

Until recently, the number of citizen scientists in Australia was estimated at between 100,000 and 130,000 people. But this is a major underestimate. My survey of about 20 key organisations suggests ...

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the thousands of images was one video clip, the ...

AI has already proved itself a valuable scientific tool. Could it take on a more central role in the research process? AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery ...

Scientists have discovered that the universe's fundamental physical constants may be finely balanced to make life possible. Even tiny changes to these constants could make liquids too thick or too ...

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By day American physicist Kenneth Long works with the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near ...