Science

Researchers have entangled atomic clocks allowing them to synchronise them more accurately. Such entangled clocks could be used study dark...

It’s long been a mystery why one of the most basic human experiences—feeling physical pain—fluctuates in intensity throughout the day....

A warm wind blows across an empty field on the outskirts of Pawnee, Okla. A small group of researchers struggle...

Female red-eyed tree frogs respond better to mating calls they hear if they can also feel them through the branches...

The one thing that all human civilizations have in common is that they end. For 10,000 years or so, that's...

With rivers breaking their banks, flash flooding and glacial lakes bursting, Pakistan is experiencing its worst floods this century. At...

Franciscan monk Paolo Benanti is the brains behind the Rome Call, a pact aimed at making sure artificial intelligence is...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The climate crisis is the prime...

In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters...

By Luke Taylor Trees in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon are being cut down and burned to make space...

Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity’s iconic twin emissaries to the cosmos....

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of...

Brown dwarfs are too massive to be a planet but not large enough to be a star, giving them features...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or...

Distinctive bursts of sleeping-brain activity, known as sleep spindles, have long been generally associated with strengthening recently formed memories. But...

People are buying up firewood and installing wood-burning stoves to heat their homes to reduce the impact of the hike...