When most people think about science, they conjure images of pipettes, sterile equipment, and people in white lab coats. But ...

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 ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott L. Montgomery is a geologist who writes about energy issues. Modern science has yielded immense benefits to society, yet it ...

China has made no secret of its goal to attract the world’s best scientists. In the past three years, a parade of highly accomplished researchers has emigrated there. Wolfgang Baumeister, a molecular ...

New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years or decades later when they win a Nobel Prize. We think you should know ...