Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark. The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let ...

This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of ...

A century ago, the idea of humans walking on the Moon or editing genes would have sounded like fantasy. In 2025, science pushed past disbelief again — not with distant promises, but with real-world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research maps 55 million papers and patents to find the studies that truly changed science. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Some ...

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 ...

Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh for TIME (Source Images: See bottom of page) Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners were announced Saturday (April 18) as the red carpet opened at the annual gala in Los Angeles, a globally broadcast ceremony often dubbed the "Oscars of Science," ...

AI in science is changing how researchers approach discovery by making complex problems faster to solve and easier to understand. Across fields like biology, chemistry, physics, and climate studies, ...

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...