More than 125 new species of plants and 65 new fungi were discovered in 2025. Dr. Martin Cheek with the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens breaks down the top 10 new discoveries.

A landmark real-world experiment gave the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, finally giving concrete data to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology ...

Some of 2025’s scientific discoveries pushed the limits. Earth’s longest lightning and the first AI-generated genomes are among this year’s superlative achievements, along with black holes old and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PROF. YIFAT MERBL. Just last year, she received the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Research in the Promising Researcher category, ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...