With "Tron: Ares" opening in theaters this weekend, we take a look back at the 1982 original that revolutionized CGI and influenced nearly every science-fiction film to come — even though it wasn't ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luke Barwikowski, founder and CEO of Pixels. It has been edited for length and clarity. I was raised in a very stereotypical Michigan family. My ...

After decades of setting the pace for tech and innovation, the U.S. is at risk of surrendering its lead in the race that will define the future.

Funding for science is more than just the amount of money. To a large extent, the organizations that fund research set the agenda, and different funders have different priorities. It can also be hard ...

Four years after vows to champion parents rights and end “critical race theory” helped Glenn Youngkin become Virginia’s governor, Winsome Earle-Sears has made transgender student policies a campaign ...

Its origin is rooted in decades of careful research and innovative science that transformed a naturally occurring hormone into a powerful medicine.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

Louisville basketball coach Pat Kelsey made the switch from the new kid on the ACC block last season to being poised to run it this season with one of the best rosters in the league. Talent, and the ...

A member of the Nobel committee likened the discovery to Hermione Granger’s seemingly bottomless enchanted handbag in the “Harry Potter” series, in that the frameworks may look small from the outside, ...

I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own experiments, which were never focused on climate change, that have been ...

When you hear Discovery, you probably think of shark fins slicing through blue waters or documentaries that made science feel ...