Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine. Normally, creating better ...

Erdos, explores what researchers call autoformalization, the process of converting traditional mathematical proofs into formats machines can verify using tools such as Lean and Coq.

A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole ...

As space agencies prepare to bring home pieces of the Martian system, the hope of finding life elsewhere in the universe feels closer than ever. NASA’s Mars Sample Return plan and the Martian Moons ...

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...