An awe-inspiring science project by a Dallas ISD seventh-grader is now drawing national attention, as the student works to secure a Guinness World Record as the youngest person to achieve nuclear ...

The 1980s were a golden era for science fiction movies, but not everything that hit the big screen aged well. These classics ...

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The Slack channel didn’t start as a movement — it began as a space where about 50 doctoral students talked through policy ...

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

Over a series of studies researchers found that watching television, scrolling on smartphones and playing video games after ...

Science-fiction has always been one of the most popular genres out there, whether it is in portraying dystopian futures or imagining how technology can change humanity in unexpected ways. Over the ...

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

Evelyn Valdez-Ward is executive director of ReclaimingSTEM Institute. Nic Bennett is a volunteer board member of Reclaiming STEM and People's Science Network. Robert N. Ulrich is the Associate ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...