When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...
A rare shipwreck, a gnome garden and 'Dragon's Teeth' defences are among the weird and wonderful historic structures that ...
Early-career society leaders in volunteer positions primarily learned about their scientific societies during undergraduate ...
Greater Good’s editors pick the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Foreign regimes have spent decades infiltrating U.S. schools with cash, spies, and revisionist curricula to breed anti-patriotism.
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That said, several key categories of biomarkers can provide meaningful insight into long-term health.
Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivore duck-billed dinosaur that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, was discovered back in 1908 in east-central Wyoming by C.H. Sternberg, a fossil ...
Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with ...