Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

Auditions, voice work, study, reinvention and lived experience—that’s how actors continue to work beyond releases and ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Many engineering and science undergraduates are approaching January application deadlines for prestigious summer internships ...

Students who participated in the virtual Research Experience for Undergraduates at Purdue reported stronger gains in research ...

Each spring, a group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln animal science students takes what they’ve learned in class and puts ...

A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy ...

Lawmakers return to Washington with a packed agenda and just a few weeks to avoid another shutdown. A farm bill and water ...

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