A paper reporting the results, co-authored by Masterson, Meyer and others, was posted to the preprint server arXiv.org in January and has been accepted for publication in the February 13 edition ...

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

fracking company executive Chris Wright), the scientific evidence is clear that climate change helped fuel the ferocity of these blazes. Hotter, drier conditions and increasing “weather whiplash ...

We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at [email protected] to share your experience. A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the February 1957 issue of Scientific American.

After NASA’s space shuttles retired in 2011, NASA bought transportation for its astronauts on Russian and then private American spacecraft. The black jagged line separates decades of space travel.

President Biden issued an executive order to permit data centers on federal lands in a move aimed at bolstering clean energy and protecting national security during a boom in artificial ...

Editors of scientific journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, questioned the legality of the move. For scientific papers that have been accepted by a journal but not yet ...

We discuss a big week for commercial spaceflight, a red dye ban and a scary spider species in this news roundup. Linguists think that the words that we use to express pain might tell us something ...

Biden Opens Publicly Owned Land to Data Centers Run on Clean Energy President Biden issued an executive order to permit data centers on federal lands in a move aimed at bolstering clean energy and ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly ... And the thinking there is, historically, the spectrum was limited, connecting to cell towers and things like that, so maybe when ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific ... mandate from the American people to ...