Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S ...

Sunshine Swetnam is an assistant professor of natural resources at Colorado State University. Subscribe to Scientific ...

Steven R. Fassnacht is a professor of snow hydrology at Colorado State University. Subscribe to Scientific American to learn ...

Ari Sen is data editor at Scientific American, where he focuses on investigative and data reporting. He previously worked at ...

Acquiring xAI could boost SpaceX’s plans to launch a one-million-strong satellite constellation to act as an orbital data center network ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence ...

After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy ...

There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades ...

The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

A tiny, plant-eating dinosaur about the same size of a chicken that occupied what’s now northern Spain some 125 million years ...

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...