As the moon blankets the sun and casts a dark shadow over the Earth, scientific breakthroughs can come to light. Total solar eclipses are more than just breathtaking spectacles—they are cosmic ...

Both funders and researchers would find it useful to know which areas of inquiry are most likely to lead to important findings. A new metrics-based approach aims to analyze paper citations, patents, ...

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) supported 58,800 science fund projects last year, allocating a total ...

‘Big science’ today is international, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional. Big science projects are anchored around expensive, large and complex instruments, they can run for several decades and ...