Kazakhstan’s team made history at the International Physics Olympiad 2026 by winning five gold medals for the first time, joining China, India, South Korea, Russia, and Taiwan.

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An artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting its star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have discovered a rocky planet that is likely to have an atmosphere — and could be a host for life. In a paper published this week in Science1, researchers report their observations of helium escaping from the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet called…

Kate Adamala has a vision of the future. In it, biology would replace chemical manufacturing. “Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with biology.” Adamala and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis announced one step toward that future on July…

This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smallest crescent at the center of the of the image as Mars is farthest from the spacecraft, and progressively grows…

Cancers don’t come much worse than the brain cancer glioblastoma, and it is notoriously difficult to treat. Even with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, fewer than 30 percent of patients are alive two years after diagnosis. Scientists are busy hunting for treatment approaches that can improve those survival rates, and a team from Oregon State University…

For 18 months, the Trump administration has been accused by science advocates of shredding a social contract between academic researchers and the federal government that made the United States the world’s most powerful engine of discovery. Now it’s proposing a way to rebuild American science.  Taking inspiration from “Science — The Endless Frontier,” a 1945 manifesto…