National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration led no shortage of scientific breakthroughs in 2025: from launching satellites with new instruments to advance space weather observations to deploying ...

Remember when the latest tech was a pedometer that counted your steps? Those days are long gone. Now, your workout gear can analyze muscle fatigue like a team of PhDs. Wearable sensors track your ...

New research suggests that the most formidable barrier to commercializing nanotechnology is not the science itself, but ...

2025 had its ups and downs for many people, and you might understandably be ready to leave the year in your rearview mirror. Before moving on to the future though, it's worth looking back on some of ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks ...

It was a tough year for science in the U.S. Thousands of research grants, including more than 3,800 from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation alone, were frozen or ...

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 ...

The last 25 years have seen an impressive array of scientific advances, from the sequencing of the human genome to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at CERN (shown above). Fons Rademakers, ...

March 10 holds significant US historical moments. In 1862, the first US paper money circulated. Alexander Graham Bell tested the telephone in 1876. Ulysses S. Grant led Union armies in 1864. James ...

Early on in his career, Uri Schattner, a geologist and geophysicist at the University of Haifa, had an epiphany. While scientists are equipped with how to do their science and publish the results of ...