An undergraduate student at Penn State University discovered a new approach to a century-old problem, and in doing so made it easier for engineers to develop more efficient wind turbines.
Interesting things can hide in preserved dung. Besides offering clues about long-gone vegetation, almost anything that gets trapped in ancient feces and stands the test of time can give us
This week at the IEEE Electronic Components and Packaging Technology Conference, Intel unveiled that it is developing new chip packaging technology that will allow for bigger processors for AI. With
We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. About 317 billion times per year members of the U.S. public check the weather on their phones, TVs or some
No one has launched a nuclear weapon in war since 1945, when U.S. president Harry S. Truman bombed Japan. Support for that decision—the only use of atomic arms in a
Velvet Worm Slime Reveals Its Sticky Secrets The velvet worm’s extraordinary goo could inspire recyclable bioplastics By Elizabeth Anne Brown edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Velvet worms like this one
June’s new science fiction includes a space opera from Megan E. O’Keefe Science Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo Do you like your world ravaged by unstoppable and deadly viruses
As technology progressed, humans also got better at passing on skills to others English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images An analysis of more than 3 million years of human evolution shows that
A baffling proof of the ABC conjecture set off a bitter divide among mathematicians AndreasG/Shutterstock As a science journalist, there are some stories that you return to again and again.
