Woodland salamanders have worn the same basic body plan for over 100 million years, leading scientists to dismiss them as evolutionary copies of each other. A new study decided to look closer, and ...

If formalized, the rule would make political priorities the prime determinant of what science gets funded and sideline the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

Springer Nature’s 2026 Nature Index ranks China No.1 in research output, with East Asian countries rapidly expanding their scientific presence across seven subject areas East Asian countries including ...

Johns Hopkins University will invest $80 million annually for each of the next two years in groundbreaking basic and applied research across a vast array of life science disciplines—from immunology to ...

China’s state asset regulator has ordered its central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to double their basic research spending by 2030, seeking to incentivise some of the country’s largest companies ...

The Ministry of Science and ICT has appointed Jang Seok-bok (張碩福, age 63), director of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations, as the 4th president of the Institute for Basic Science ...

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of ...

BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called for greater effort to strengthen basic ‌research and raise China's original innovation capacity, state media reported, as the global ...

About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The Trump ...

A power substation and telecommunication tower in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) was struck by two US missiles during a Jan. 3 US military operation. Some ...