Science

After mapping comes planning. Sustainability professionals, warehouse managers, CFOs, or whoever uses the platform are given a to-do list for...

A long-fingered lemur has been caught on camera picking its nose—and eating the slimy goods. The culprit was Kali, an...

Astronomers have found an unexpected asymmetry in stars escaping from their clusters, and it cannot be easily explained by our...

But even if the platforms’ accuracy improves, it’s hard to know whether they would be able to detect a completely...

Climate change is putting pressure on one of science’s earliest fields of discovery: archaeology. Drought in the Colorado River basin...

Two neutron stars smashing together may produce a form of matter not seen before. If that happens, simulations suggest there...

Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sergi spent...

There’s an age-old adage in biology: structure determines function. In order to understand the function of the myriad proteins that...

Periods of extreme drought can be a normal part of global climate patterns, but rising temperatures may now be changing...

Further evidence of this bias comes from the reaction of the mice when they were first put into learning situations....

In early October Travis Gienger hauled an enormous white-and-orange monstrosity of a pumpkin from his home in Minnesota to a...

A device that measures acceleration very precisely using quantum effects could be used for navigation when GPS is unavailable Physics...

But you don't have to be a superhero to experience this kind of flight. If you have a set of...

This podcast was produced for the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson by Scientific American Custom Media, a division...

Short spells of extreme heat can be enough to lower a region’s economic output for an entire year, according to...

Today, Ethiopian farmers are feeling the pressure to grow modern monoculture crops, thanks in part to a national push to...