Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis.

Two friends out walking their dogs along the eastern coast of Scotland unexpectedly found an archaeological goldmine. After wind gusts as strong as 55 mph blew away sand on the dunes of a beach near ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

Imagine cutting a strand of hair into one hundred thousand tiny slices. Now imagine something even smaller than one of those slices. That is the scale of nanote ...

The science communicator, a disciple of Stephen Hawking, believes it will be decades before we colonize Mars. But he says we ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said artificial intelligence can drive rapid progress and help emerging economies leapfrog development gaps. Speaking in New Delhi, he highlighted India investments, workforce ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how scientists understand proteins—these are working molecules that drive nearly every process in the human body, from cell growth and immune defense to ...