According to a report from Axios, the Trump administration has canceled funding and contracts to Springer Nature, including ...

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NEW YORK, June 03, 2025--Scientific American announces its new Editor-in-Chief, David M. Ewalt. NEW YORK, ... Ewalt becomes the magazine’s 10 th editor-in-chief as it celebrates 180 years.

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To drive the development of such AI, we must develop a new test—let’s call it the Gardner test—in which an AI is surprised ...

Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. About 317 billion times per year members of the U.S. public check the weather on their phones, TVs or some other ...

We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon.

Andrea Gawrylewski is chief newsletter editor at Scientific American.She writes the daily Today in Science newsletter and oversees all other newsletters at the magazine. In addition, she manages ...

When food runs out, certain tiny roundworms, barely visible to the naked eye, crawl toward one another and build living, wriggling towers that move as one superorganism.For the first time, we’ve ...