The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into Saturn's atmosphere. During these GFOs, the probe collected samples of ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce that the first journal it launched, Research, has received its inaugural Journal Impact Factor, 11.036, ranking it #10 among 73 ...

Japan and Switzerland move up the ranks. The United States is the global leader in physical sciences research, but China is rapidly closing the gap. China achieved the largest growth in high-quality ...

No anniversary list is ever complete. Just last month, for instance, my Top 10 scientific anniversaries of 2018 omitted the publication two centuries ago of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It should have ...

As one of three panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032; the Physical Sciences Panel has been ...

An evolving understanding of cancer that incorporates the physical properties of tumors and their surrounding tissues into existing biologic and genetic models can direct cancer researchers down ...

China has continued to make big strides in physical-sciences output in the Nature Index, while the United States and Germany lose ground. In the 2024 Research Leaders table, which shows data for 2023, ...

The Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032 will review the state of knowledge in the current and emerging areas of space-related biological and physical ...