Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics, and she worked during World War II as a physicist on the Dayton Project, a critical part of the Manhattan Project tasked with ...

Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference on failure didn’t go ...

David Adam is a writer in Hertford, near London. Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery at the ...

An 18-year-old student from Pasadena, California, placed first in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school students, winning $250,000. Matteo Paz ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Computer science student Ashley Baird is the kind of person who thrives on completing what she starts. Baird's drive to see things through resulted in a successful machine learning project for the U.S ...

The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure. Now it’s being dismantled. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington For more than a ...