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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
King Tides, formally known as Perigean-Spring Tides, are exceptionally high tides. These usually occur about three times a ...
A national student-led effort shows how early-career researchers are engaging Congress on federal science funding amid ...
These young scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are working to build a better world at every scale imaginable.
Together, the N.I.H. and the N.S.F. had a nearly $60 billion annual budget for funding future breakthroughs in science and ...
When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...
The Wellcome Photography Prize awards photographers who show how science affects human health around the world.