Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh for TIME (Source Images: See bottom of page) Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors ...

This report identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have changed our world for the better. Advances in medicine have allowed for ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for more evidence. In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, ...

Every great science-fiction story has a moment when imagination gives way to something sturdier. Not a guess. Not a beautiful image. But a number recorded by a tool that doesn’t blink. 128026366 ...

A century ago, the idea of humans walking on the Moon or editing genes would have sounded like fantasy. In 2025, science pushed past disbelief again — not with distant promises, but with real-world ...

It was a tough year for science in the US. Thousands of research grants, including more than 3,800 from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation alone, were frozen or ...

New research suggests that the most formidable barrier to commercializing nanotechnology is not the science itself, but rather the way organizations manage the innovation process. While nanotechnology ...