Author: Scientific American

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces called “dark energy” affecting the cosmos?

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

A new analysis of red lines inside a U.K. cave suggest they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

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Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet