Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

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A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have found a cure for a common kind of vision loss that is effective in patients of all ages. In their study, published in the ...

This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of ...

Nasa’s Perseverance has achieved a major breakthrough in detecting complex carbon molecules in Martian rocks that are already ...

New research suggests that the most formidable barrier to commercializing nanotechnology is not the science itself, but rather the way organizations manage the innovation process. While nanotechnology ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle From mini-brains to spider-inspired ...