From thrilling breakthroughs to alarming problems, astronomy is full of surprises. This video reveals six good and bad updates that are reshaping how we see the universe.

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The investment from Brown parents Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani will support scholars seeking to unlock the potential of RNA to make a positive impact on human health.

Brown’s Giuliani RNA Center and the Rhode Island Life Science Hub co-hosted a symposium focused on how scientists can work together to turn RNA discoveries into solutions.

Angel Martí, chair of Rice University’s Department of Chemistry, is leading efforts to highlight chemistry’s role in advancing brain health research. With Texas voters set to decide on Proposition 14 ...

Timothy Moy explains the namesake of the new café in Harvey court, and if it’s finally time to re-evaluate how we credit scientific discoveries ...

Discoveries that prove aliens have visited Earth The persistent human fascination with extraterrestrial life and the fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe ...

AstroSat, India's first Space Astronomy Observatory, celebrates a decade of groundbreaking discoveries in the universe.

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...