Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. As the year comes to an end, instead of catching up on the latest science stories you ...

Biotechnology sits at a fascinating crossroads. As scientific advances uncover the shared mechanisms of oncology and immunology, the traditional boundaries in how we perceive and treat these diseases ...

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) tools into the scientific community has led to a paradigm shift in how research ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

In January, the American Astronomical Society hosted a panel to discuss how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory would transform scientific studies of dark matter, dark energy and the faintest corners of the ...

Most classification systems in science are either very broad, grouping papers into just a few high-level fields like “Chemistry” or “Physics”, or they focus on a few or even single fields in detail.

The federal funding landscape is undergoing significant changes, reshaping how agencies like the National Science Foundation evaluate Broader Impacts and Broadening Participation in science. Broader ...

In a first-ever “State of the Science” address at the end of June, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt warned that the U.S. was ceding its global scientific leadership to other ...

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