Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

Sarah Vitak: This is Scientific American’s 60 Second Science. I’m Sarah Vitak. The question of how life came to be has captivated humans for millennia. The prevailing theory now is that, on a highly ...

No one can question the impact of science on human civilization, and the importance of experimentation in science is equally undeniable. Some experiments confirm what we already know, others suggest a ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: ...