As nearly half of the world's population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. But scientists and the natural world also managed to attract the public's attention.

The psychedelic drug psilocybin briefly erases people’s neural fingerprints, the baseline brain activity unique to an individual. Some of the biggest changes occur in an area called the default mode ...

Just one year after 2023 made the record books as the hottest year in Earth’s documented history, climate scientists are all but certain that 2024 will take its title. According to a new report by the ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. This year ...

For a dozen years, ENR’s Global Best Projects Awards has enlisted industry experts to review a broad pool of entries from around the world. This year, the jury selected 35 winning projects located in ...

There is rarely time to write about every cool science paper that comes our way; many worthy candidates sadly fall through the cracks over the course of the year. But as 2024 comes to a close, we’ve ...

Finance & Commerce’s Top Projects of 2024 honors projects based on the degree of difficul­ty, creativity in design, innovative construction techniques and sustainability efforts. And this year we’re ...