Mix up-to-date science with cutting-edge robotics, CG, time travel and Cretaceous dinosaurs, and combine them to create an amazing visitor attraction. The result? Welcome... to Dinosaurs in the Wild ... | Continue reading
New evidence from Jordan is challenging what we thought we knew about hunter–gatherer diets | Continue reading
Only one male has turned up at the birds’ breeding grounds this year—and he’s too young to breed | Continue reading
Even drugs whose development was stalled or canceled might show promise for illnesses they were never meant to treat | Continue reading
They’re nurtured by informal dialogues in environments where mistakes are tolerated and critical thinking is encouraged | Continue reading
When fantastical science logic leaves the screen and stops being fun | Continue reading
Kilauea's putting on a dangerous show | Continue reading
No one likes a bare desk, least of all the people who have to sit there | Continue reading
For every human they kill, we kill literally millions of them | Continue reading
Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball | Continue reading
Philosophy has always played an essential role in the development of science, physics in particular, and is likely to continue to do so | Continue reading
A government-science partnership with input from local fishermen is the reason—and it could be a model for natural resource science | Continue reading
Opinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
A follow up to my Scientific American column on consciousness, free will, and God…the final mysteries? | Continue reading
The Berkeley math professor shares his favorite prime proofs | Continue reading
Our ancestors may have been on the move out of Africa 300,000 years earlier than we originally thought | Continue reading
Fossils found in Wyoming help refine our understanding of when early primates switched claws for nails | Continue reading
Getting a handle on past scientific discoveries may require thinking about them in a new context | Continue reading
The agency’s proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best available science | Continue reading
It’s a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it | Continue reading
Because sometimes a Cantor set just wants to feel pretty | Continue reading
Scientists turn to fossil poo in an effort to prove a long-standing hypothesis | Continue reading
Psychedelics have psychological and spiritual benefits, as a new best seller claims, but they’re far from a panacea | Continue reading
Its apparent infallibility saps the vitality of the field. | Continue reading
Believe it or not, I do have friends who would describe themselves as not liking math, and every so often one of them will share this meme on Facebook: And then Satan said, "Put the alphabet in math." There are different background pictures each time the meme pops up, but the tex … | Continue reading
A new paper argues that the condition now known as “Dissociative Identity Disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality | Continue reading
It has successfully predicted many particles, including the Higgs Boson, and has led to 55 Nobels so far, but there’s plenty it still can’t account for | Continue reading
The answer is subjective, but the underlying math is not | Continue reading
Once you put established facts about the world up for argument, you’ve already lost | Continue reading
Quantum theorist John Wheeler’s “it from bit” hypothesis anticipated ongoing speculation that consciousness is fundamental to reality | Continue reading
…but has yet to reach Base Camp 1 | Continue reading
The question is no longer whether quantum theory is correct, but what it means | Continue reading
The Johns Hopkins University mathematician tells us why doing category theory is like playing the viola | Continue reading
Exploring their hidden realm could uncover solutions to our most pressing problems | Continue reading
Stanford Ovshinsky changed your life, and the full impact of his brilliance may still be to come | Continue reading
Doomsayers say it will put us all out of work, but experience suggests otherwise | Continue reading
While the switch from print to digital publishing has been embraced by younger researchers and students, older faculty are a little more nervous about the impact of this (nearly complete) transition. | Continue reading
In which we are honored to be the second-favorite podcast appearance of the only MIT applied math graduate student who has played in the NFL | Continue reading
His company, TerraPower, aims to build a safe, nearly waste-free reactor that won't contribute to weapons proliferation or climate change | Continue reading
That was the ruling by the editors of the authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 2013, but it remains controversial | Continue reading
It’s not the condition; it’s Hans Asperger, who wasn’t the first to describe it in any case, and whose research was influenced by Nazism | Continue reading
Animation software brings together data to tell a molecular story | Continue reading
Science is messy, full of plot twists and competing interpretations—and the way we talk about it should reflect that truth | Continue reading