This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

For years, the conversation around quantum computing and cryptocurrency has been dominated by a single, breathless question: Will a quantum breakthrough kill Bitcoin? The fear is simple enough.

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

Efficiency is Nana Guenther’s love language. It is also her profession. The thirty-seven-year-old Torontonian spent a decade in corporate accounting before realizing that her true calling was process ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

It was a year of big wins for most of the world’s billionaires, but these ten people had the best 2025 of all.

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

This year's best higher education books include a defense of faculty tenure, an expose of scientific fraud, advice on how students should search for a college, suggestions for how they can make the ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

The best week of the college football season is finally here. Rivalries are on the Thanksgiving menu, with an extra serving of games that feature College Football Playoff and conference championship ...

Here are selections, made with your help, of the 125 people who were vital parts of Orange County’s story for 2025.