In 2018, artificial intelligence took on new tasks, with these smarty-pants algorithms acing everything from disease diagnosis to crater counting. In April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The animal kingdom just keeps getting wilder. It's hard to believe that scientists are still finding entirely new species in 2018, but a prehistoric marsupial lion, a shark with cartoon eyes, and a ...

These countries were the year's largest contributors to papers published in the past year in the 82 leading journals tracked by the Nature Index. The United States is the most prolific publisher of ...

In 2018, we saw just how much power science has to make a real impact. Science News’ top stories of the year include a literal impact — the hidden contours of what appears to be a massive crater ...

Increasing international collaboration in Shanghai underpins the strong growth of research output in this vibrant city, driving science and technology innovation. Advancement of in vitro diagnostics ...

Millions of people see science-related information on their Facebook feeds or elsewhere on social media, but the kinds of science stories people most likely encounter are often practical tips with ...

Science has chosen single-cell analyses of gene activity through time as its 2018 Breakthrough of the Year, honoring a trifecta of methods that together are enabling researchers to determine, at the ...

Winners of the 2018 Visualizing Science contest include images of nanomaterials, the connection between chaos and electronics and a glimpse into the aural lives of the elderly. Over the last six years ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands on the National Mall on Saturday marched past the Environmental Protection Agency and to the U.S. Capitol to advocate for science to play a larger role in society — and stressed ...

Neuroscientists know a lot about how our brains learn new things, but not much about how they choose what to focus on while they learn. Now, researchers have traced that ability to an unexpected place ...

Our emotional state in a given moment may influence what we see, according to new findings. In two experiments, researchers found that participants saw a neutral face as smiling more when it was ...

Science is essentially the search for and recognition of reality. Each year, there are those who ignore this endeavor entirely, preferring fictitious narratives to concrete truths. There are also ...