Author: Scientific American

Artemis II blasts off on a high‑stakes lunar flyby, marking NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon in decades

The Orion spacecraft just completed its last planned major fuel burn, setting its course for the rest of its ten-day journey around the moon and back

It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult

Scientists have learned how male octopuses' specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go

This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second GLP-1 pill for weight loss. The drug, called Foundayo, resulted in an average of 27 pounds lost in 72 weeks

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once believed

Code that reads your frustration is the least interesting part of the story of this accidental leak from Anthropic. The leak reveals how AI tools are also concealing their own role in the work they help produce

These tiny fish use friction to put human rock climbers to shame

The first day of the Artemis II mission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon