Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

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Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head ...

In “Life’s Big Bangs,” Asher Elbein reports on geochemist Abderrazak El Albani’s controversial argument that complex life emerged much earlier than thought and possibly did so multiple times, based on ...

An exhale of pressure,  slight as a concubine kissing an eyelid,       followed by an ultrasound impact. My lens spidered, a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Many universities have dedicated student-run ...

ALTHOUGH the United States was the first government to purchase an aeroplane for military use, the much more rapid development of the heavier-than-air machine in France led to a quick appreciation of ...

For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science ...

The world cheered when Alex Honnold free-climbed a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei. Gather now, fickle public, to applaud the new free-climbing champion: the shellear, a fish that is about the size of ...