Author: Scientific American

For the first time, scientists managed to turn cloned male mouse embryos into females, giving life to healthy and fertile individuals

Sci-fi author Becky Chambers on designing believable ecosystems, balancing scientific accuracy with emotional impact and emphasizing empathy over spectacle

Protein-packed leaves might be the key to better meat alternatives

AI helped uncover a special object that can fill space without repeating patterns

Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a 194-year-old tortoise’s DNA might hold the key to a longer life.

Signs of hidden chambers in the walls of the famous boy king's tomb have raised hopes among researchers of finding hints of Nefertiti's burial place—Tutankhamun's stepmother and mother-in-law

The research offers yet another way the brewery industry might repurpose its myriad by-products

Why taking a break from exercise doesn't may not mean you need to start from scratch

The quake was a strike-slip event and strong aftershocks could follow

The Category 3 storm intensified overnight—and is headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Here’s what to know