Rejecting devastating cuts to science funding proposed by the Trump administration, a congressional panel released three ...

In 2025, Popular Science continued our mission to demystify our weird world for millions of readers. We debunked myths about ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

19. The largest known prime number contains 41,024,320 digits. 20. Frogs breathe and drink through their skin. 21. A bullet ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

There was major science news in 2025. Plus, underreported developments in geoengineering and a triumph for furniture ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.