Alan Turing secretly developed a portable voice encryption device called Delilah at Hanslope Park during World War II, condensing massive equipment into three shoebox-sized units that were ...

Learn how to make stunning giant paper flowers in just a few minutes with this easy diy tutorial! Whether you're a seasoned crafter or a beginner, this 5-minute craft project is perfect for adding a ...

On a Thursday afternoon in mid-April, nearly 400 physicists and physics students pack into a lecture hall in the Harvard Science Center to learn about their replacement. Harvard Professor of Physics ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

In Project Hail Mary, Dr. Ryland Grace is a humble schoolteacher who one day awakens to find he’s been launched into space as humanity’s last hope for survival. Given the meteoric rise to fame of ...

A thesis project from a computer science Ph.D. student at UC San Diego in La Jolla offers a new framework using a team of specialized artificial intelligence “agents” to read research papers through a ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...