It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...
A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station ...
An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...
Imagine you’re training to be a chef. You learn cooking techniques and develop intuitions about flavor pairings, and, after a long period of training, you land your first real job as a chef. As you ...
Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints. When you purchase through links on our ...
Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost memory Nora Bradford, Quanta Magazine Some solutions are reached incrementally ...
Greenland's only US military base is (quietly) getting a massive upgrade Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues XAI over deepfake images Trump is threatening to attack a country ...
This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...
Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...
Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.
Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...