Ancient canal systems discovered in Arizona have transformed our understanding of the early civilizations of the American ...

Radio telescopes can detect and map these signals from neutral hydrogen ... In 2018, to the excitement and surprise of the scientific community, a lone radio telescope in the Australian Outback ...

E-mail us at [email protected] to share your experience. Gayoung Lee is Scientific American’s current news intern. A philosopher turned journalist, originally from South Korea, Lee is interested ...

Thanks also to Jeff DelVisio and our publishing partner, “Scientific American.” “Lost Women of Science” is funded in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Anne Wojcicki Foundation.

and the views expressed by the author or authors are solely their own and not those of any organization they are affiliated with or necessarily those of Scientific American.

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could reshape policies from health care at home to nuclear proliferation abroad ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

Can you crack Killer Sudoku's mathematical twist? The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. In Killer Sudoku, the digits in each ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March ...

And because all the bilingual dictionaries in this study map back to English—it’s the language into which everything else gets translated—the analysis is influenced by the words used in ...

If you’ve been reading this column lately, you might have noticed a recent trend where I try to answer some deceptively simple questions: What is a planet? What is a moon? What is a star?

I’m a zero at mental arithmetic. It’s true—I struggle with this skill—but I want to focus on the phrase itself. In our language, we often equate zero with something negative. But zero is ...