Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997 ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion people will experience partly or fully dark skies as the moon passes directly in front of our star, ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. One quick heads up: This episode features some spoilers for Project Hail Mary. If there’s one thing that the many, many ...

Mathematician Yang-Hui He explains why artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming mathematical work—and that's a ...

The vagus nerve is the autonomic nervous system’s highway, connecting every major organ ...

President Donald Trump and other Republican officials had criticized this chapter as biased against fossil fuel companies ...

Individual metabolism and health can also determine just how healthy coffee is for each person. For future research, ...

That’s the premise of a paper published earlier this month in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The research began as an effort to categorize known examples of fossilized poop, or coprolites, from both ...

A recent survey found that a majority of Americans support psychedelic use for medical reasons. Psilocybin and MDMA in ...

Colombia rocked by 7.4 magnitude earthquake—its largest in the past decade This seismic event is of a similar magnitude to ...

Scientists have crossed a threshold in artificial intelligence: using the technology, researchers have created real viruses ...

Humans, as an evolutionary group, are often said to be losing their sense of smell. “But our sense of smell is not simply ...