Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

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 Joe Spring, ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

Scientists should experiment with creative ways of communicating their work to inspire action to protect the natural world, researchers say. Scientists primarily publish their work in academic ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward In 2025, researchers watched an interstellar comet, learned about human ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...