The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S.

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their secrets, proofs are not always so simple—but a new result significantly closes ...

Scientific American is seeking original short documentary film proposals that spotlight the dedicated scientists working on ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set, drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

Though the consequences of the cold have been widespread and acute—with travel disruptions, power outages and scores of ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...