From asteroid collisions to mega-rocket launches and Alzheimer's drugs to anthropological discoveries, 2022 had its share of groundbreaking science news. RealClearScience strove to bring it all to you ...

Joe Spring, Carlyn Kranking, Riley Black, Dan Falk, Bridget Alex and Shi En Kim This year in science was filled with amazing discoveries, sobering stats related to mounting illness and death from ...

Using images captured by satellites, researchers have confirmed that the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano produced the highest-ever recorded plume. The colossal eruption ...

Words alone cannot capture the full wonder (or horror) of all the stories science had to tell this year. That’s where graphics come in. Whether visualizing the most important data emerging around the ...

The winners of our most recent Visualizing Science contest include an image related to “smart” material research, simulations of a meeting between a neutron star and a black hole and the connection ...

At its core, science is a frustrating field. Those that take on the profession prove themselves wrong far more often than they prove themselves right. And the process itself can be staggeringly ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo, for his work in tracing human evolution by reconstructing the genomes of extinct hominins. Pääbo was ...

It was another bumper year for breakthroughs, records, and firsts for science, in fields ranging from conception to death, with some freak waves and prehistoric fish hearts thrown in for good measure.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There’s a phrase that rings loudly in the heads of Popular ...

To state the obvious: This has been an unorthodox Atlantic hurricane season. Everyone from the US agency devoted to studying weather, oceans, and the atmosphere—the National Ocean and Atmospheric ...

In July, the startup Mojo Vision announced that their CEO wore the company’s prototype augmented reality (AR) contact lenses for the first time. Each device is equipped with a display that is 30 times ...

The Cartwheel galaxy (right) was formed as the result of a high-speed collision about 400 million years ago. This composite image brings together observations from JWST's infrared instruments. Image ...