Adam Rogers is a journalist covering science, technology and culture. A former editor at WIRED and senior correspondent at ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through ...

A new analysis uncovers seasonal patterns of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, across the Americas, which could help ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

I’ve been a Scientific American subscriber since I was 12 years old, and it helped shape the way I look at the world. SciAm ...

If you’re trying to get someone to do something, what’s the best way to achieve that? Paying them probably comes to mind, and this intuition is a basic tenet of economic theory. In a massive 2018 ...

When hurricane season is in full swing, the news can be difficult to parse. What’s the difference between a hurricane and a tropical cyclone, after all, and what on Earth is an eye wall replacement ...

Yakerson is not alone. Several renowned mathematicians gained invaluable experience despite the challenges of incarceration.

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The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 ...

Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an ...

The journal Science has lifted an expression of concern on a paper claiming evidence of Majorana quasiparticles, but concerns linger ...