Author name: Scientific American

The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the process of bringing his story to the screen

For years, ACIP has advised U.S. vaccine policy. But after changes to its membership made by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., were challenged in court, the Trump administration is apparently mulling changing tack

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years

Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists

Retatrutide is among a new class of weight-loss drugs that are being tested for effectiveness

An annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation

When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets?

The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve