A severe drought has been declared for parts of England for the first time since 1995, pushing the government to step up emergency planning as reservoir levels sink far below seasonal norms.

Scientists discovered that human brain organoids, which are small neural clusters derived from stem cells, could identify the Braille alphabet with a high degree of accuracy.

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

A collaboration between experimentalists and theorists has developed a new way to study how electrons interact with defects in advanced semiconductors used in ultrathin electronic devices.

Presenting my series Atoll of Diffraction in its entirety! Digital art inspired by and based on physics, generated by custom, hand-crafted code. These images are low resolution versions – the…

Applications Open for 2027 Fellows-to-Faculty Award Program on Simons Foundation

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Applications Open for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

The WWF's Chief Scientific Advisor Mike Barrett told Newsround that nature is "in big trouble" around the world, but "we have still got solutions to put it right".

Machines are answering our hardest problems. Does it matter if we don’t understand how?

For much of the last century it was believed that the only types of particles allowed by quantum mechanics are bosons (such as photons, phonons, pions, Higgs, etc.) and fermions (such as electrons, mu...

Simons Foundation Announces 2026–2027 Class of SURFiN Fellows on Simons Foundation

Read more about our three different awards for independent investigators that we offer to advance Parkinson's research and care.

Adding social responsibility to technical training prepares students to protect the public good

More than a quarter of a million people have marched in cities across France in support of school pupils demanding more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President E...

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing LLM roleplay falls short for market research and brand strategy.