For decades, the federal government supported basic scientific research. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

University of Washington researchers developed the first system that incorporates tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...

Footprint tunnels to detect animals are made from cardboard, paper and an ink mixture Ecologists are asking islanders to help track small mammals through a new citizen science project called Garden ...

Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have crossed the “two thirds” mark of their journey to the Moon and are preparing for a historic lunar fly-around, even as a recurring toilet malfunction inside the Orion ...

A small Pacific nation has launched what officials describe as the first nationwide universal basic income (UBI) program, offering quarterly payments to citizens as a financial safety net. In some ...

The following is a story that originally appeared on the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences website. Spend enough time on a college campus and you will hear the usual stereotypes about computer ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...