At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

According to the Silver Institute, in 2024, silver demand in solar panels reached 198 million ounces, while demand stagnated ...

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Most starships in Star Trek are able to travel across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds through the use of warp drives ...

During summer camp, kids take a deep dive into the Smithsonian’s collections through museum visits, hands-on projects, games, ...

The VES Awards, created to honor exceptional creative achievement and recognized as one of the entertainment industry’s most ...

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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer will receive the VES Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 VES Awards, the Visual Effects Society ...

The Visual Effects Society has composited its 2026 career honorees. Prolific film and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Wētā ...

Jules Verne’s 1863 book "Paris in the Twentieth Century," set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and the internet.

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it through somewhat … okay. The Trump administration terminated billions of ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...