Stacker compiled a list of the best public colleges in America using 2026 rankings from Niche, which ranks schools on ...

Of all the planets in our solar system, Mars has long possessed a special allure. Indeed, its reddish hue caught the eye of many an ancient human who stared into the night sky. Starting with Galileo’s ...

Data from over 11,000 participants with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) were pooled from the recent VICTORIA and VICTOR trials with vericiguat. VICTORIA included patients ...

A steep climb eventually led them onto the ridge of Mynydd Pen-y-fal and then finally to its summit which stands at 596m or 1,955ft above sea level and straight into a blustery wind, so they ventured ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

More than half a billion people around the world have downloaded artificial-intelligence chatbot companion apps such as Xiaoice and Replika. These virtual confidantes can provide empathy, support and, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency fired five agency employees who had openly signed a June declaration critical of the Trump administration’s weakening of pollution, climate and health safety rules, ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After sweeping along the Gulf ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...

A machine-learning algorithm spotted signs of “covert consciousness” in coma patients—in some cases, days before doctors could do so “We were trying to find a way to quantify how conscious these ...