The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives’ ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve ...

Mary Randolph is a news intern at Scientific American.

The world’s average ocean temperature shattered records in June, according to two European Union Earth monitoring systems, ...

The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week—at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, rather than in Hollywood. This unique telescope is using the world’s largest ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. And in a new study published today in Nature, researchers report an even wilder discovery: Not only is WD ...

After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the ...

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be ...

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned ...