A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

A new study confirms the Moon has a solid metal inner core surrounded by a molten outer layer, reshaping our understanding of ...

It a time when many children turn away from science, an IAS officer and his wife decided to change the story. What began as a ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A coal tip in Poland is transformed into a flower-filled meadow in a single season thanks to an innovative soil additive.

Urban raccoons are developing significantly shorter snouts than their rural cousins. This suggests that raccoons are entering ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

Among the items that follow, I hope that readers can find their own version of the rainbow-colored pot holder for each of ...

Massachusetts hides a 1,500-acre paradise just 30 miles west of Boston that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets. Hopkinton State Park sprawls across the MetroWest region like nature’s ...

This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space ...

Museums are where stories stand still long enough for us to step inside. Across the United States, every state holds a ...