As soon as the anaesthetised rat stopped moving, the laboratory technician surgically removed its pancreas. There was no time to waste: the organ could only survive for about an hour outside the body.

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

DID you know that if you receive Universal Credit there are loads of attractions all over the UK that offer major discounts on entry tickets – some for as little as £1, or even for free?

In the Arizona desert, a vast glass structure sits far from cities and farmland. It was built to test an idea that once seemed urgent and uncertain. C.

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

The U.S. is once again challenging itself to go to the moon, and this time, NASA and the Trump administration want to ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

That four-mile trek could mark the first leg of Artemis II, a 10-day journey around the moon and back that will put the ...

In Shany Dror's study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

The headlines and news stories on New Year’s Day of 1926 — from New York City to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky — made a single fact evident. The nation’s moral experiment in regulating the manufacture, ...