Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research maps 55 million papers and patents to find the studies that truly changed science. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Some ...

The Golden Goose Award, which spotlights obscure, silly sounding or odd fundamental discovery research that has led to outsized societal benefits, has announced awardees for the 15th annual season.

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 ...

China on Tuesday unveiled a new program aimed at achieving breakthroughs at the frontiers of science and producing major ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners were announced Saturday (April 18) as the red carpet opened at the annual gala in Los Angeles, a globally broadcast ceremony often dubbed the "Oscars of Science," ...

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 ...

Welcome to the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair, our annual showcase of researchers who reshaped how we understand the world, ...

Few pursuits in human history match the raw ambition of trying to understand the cosmos. From ancient stargazers etching constellations onto cave walls to physicists detecting ripples in the fabric of ...

Some scientific breakthroughs arrive with a bang. Others arrive twice. That odd pattern sits at the center of a new study from researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Virginia, who ...