The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

The first hour of this four-part documentary was heavily weighted towards two stories - those of Ron McNair, the son of a ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

The EPIC study will evaluate treatment with IMAAVY™ versus efgartigimod in adults with gMG and will include a treatment-switch arm The Company also announced new data from the pivotal Vibrance-MG ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link between autism and circumcision. “There’s two studies that show children ...

Some of the best sci-fi shows set on earth offer the genre's depth and creativity without venturing into space, from Black Mirror to Stranger Things.

SpaceX has pulled off another successful test flight of Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. First, ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Travel involves two main expenditures of energy: fighting gravity and propelling ...