A research team from the Institute of Physics in Hanoi is collaborating with more than 1,000 scientists worldwide to ...

SOMETIME around AD 1600, Galileo Galilei is supposed to have climbed to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa and dropped two cannonballs of different sizes and weights over the edge. The point was to ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike.

Genetic researchers are increasing the accuracy of gene editing through experiments on unborn babies that could have been done on animals, one bioethicist says. At Columbia University, researchers ...

Italian scientists will test the Circular Slit Spectrometer during the August 12 total solar eclipse in Spain. Here’s what the rare experiment will reveal about the Sun’s corona.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the summer of 1984, the Australian ...

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It started with a poster on the classroom board of William Heinen, a biology teacher at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California, that called for all students to participate in a ...

In the mid-1980s, an article in a popular science magazine that talked about genetic engineering—recombinant DNA technologies, cloning, and related advances—caught my attention as a high schooler in ...