A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Objective: To describe the scientific output on instruments adapted to Indigenous languages in Peru. Methods: A narrative review was ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Headaches are incredibly common, but they’ve gotten surprisingly little attention from scientists. If you're enjoying ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Chinese Agrometeorological Proverbs represent a valuable repository of traditional knowledge supporting agricultural practices; however, their scientific validity and regional applicability under ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’ve all heard apologies that ring hollow and others that sound genuine, but what makes the difference? New research ...

Dating dinosaur eggs is difficult: available methods are limited and prone to errors because measurement proxies – such as volcanic rocks or crystals – may have changed between egg laying and dating ...

Tell me about what you had for dinner last night. There are different ways you could fill in the details of that story. You could give perceptual descriptions of how your food looked and tasted. Or ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. First, ...