The U.S. National Science Foundation’s $1.5 billion X-Labs call for agile new entities to tackle pressing, narrow problems ...

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered "What would this be like if it were HUGE?" Welcome to Science Max, the ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

Sometimes science needs to go big. From telescopes spanning the globe to particle accelerators that would take over 24 hours to walk around, these experiments are among the largest ever conducted.

No one can question the impact of science on human civilization, and the importance of experimentation in science is equally undeniable. Some experiments confirm what we already know, others suggest a ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.