Larry Carbone offers an insider's perspective on the ethics of using animals in invasive research, the need for more ...

Ancient humans did not sleep continuously. They commonly slept in two shifts each night, separated by a period of wakefulness ...

For 165 years, the giant fossil Prototaxites taiti puzzled scientists. Standing 26 feet tall, it may belong to an unknown branch of multicellular life, reshaping our understanding of early terrestrial ...

On 4 February, techUK hosted the latest instalment of its Quantum Readiness Series, bringing together experts from across the UK’s quantum ecosystem to explore how rapidly developing quantum ...

How to change your mind — and the minds of the people around you - IN DEPTH: How do you argue with your family in a productive way? How can you make sure your own belief system is serving you properly ...

There’s a moment when you bite into perfectly smoked barbecue that time seems to stop – that’s exactly what happens at Sweet Lucy’s Smokehouse in Philadelphia, where the ribs aren’t just a meal, ...

Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

In the 1930s, the Switzer brothers stumbled onto a way to mimic fluorescence. That led to Day-Glo, which has been making the world a brighter place ever since ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

Imagination may not be a privilege for humans alone, as research with a language-experienced bonobo in controlled cognitive ...