For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.

A new study find that ice might actually be slippery due to the orientation of the dipoles in the material and how they align ...