O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

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Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

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Expert Blake Emerson discusses the legal ramifications of Elon Musk and the Trump administration's recent economic moves.

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Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.

As I've grown older and experienced the vagaries of my ageing memory, I've often reflected on the possibility of a miracle ...