In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Former Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth resigned after going on a tirade about President Trump following the election. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Scientific ...

Excalidraw is an innovative online whiteboarding tool that uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to convert simple text prompts into detailed, professional-quality diagrams. Whether you ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

The team trained a machine-learning algorithm to analyse the text of the papers and classify the research according to scientific categories laid out by the NIH, such as ‘chronic pain’ or ...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers is a Ph.D. student of economics at MIT and has a working paper out on what happened to scientific discovery (and the jobs of scientists) when an R&D lab at a U.S. firm ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its ... Some Species of Baleen ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

Find out how brain implants are treating depression – and changing lives. This six-part series explores in-depth science, stories of hope and what it means to be human. Episodes are delivered ...

The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years, which marks an important stage in the solar cycle. The shift in polarity marks the point at which the sun is halfway through solar maximum ...