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This series was created for UL Research Institutes by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. The first planes often crashed. The first boilers ...

Brandon Jones (center), president of the American Geophysical Union, speaks about how the global science community can withstand political attacks on science during the European Geosciences Union ...

The United States is holding its position as the leader of biological sciences, but China is hot on its heels. Germany and the United Kingdom are neck-and-neck, as are Japan and France, each one vying ...

New studies and patents are "increasingly less likely to break with the past in ways that push science and technology in new directions," according to a 2023 paper that found a lack of disruptive ...

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s ...