In an age of surveillance and misinformation, Orwell’s warnings remain central to debates over truth and authority.

A novel AI algorithm equips researchers with a powerful new tool to accurately identify individual jaguars, zebras and ...

Sometimes, scientists unintentionally cause harm, like in one infamous study where researchers played the call of a dead elephant back to its relatives. The living elephants became visibly distressed ...

If you’re trying to solve today’s Contexto and need some helpful hints to get to the solution that don’t totally spoil it for you, we have you covered! It is 7 letters in length Some of the closest ...

In a Philadelphia laboratory, a molecule that last circulated through the bloodstream of a woolly mammoth tens of thousands of years ago is killing bacteria again. The molecule, a short chain of amino ...

Miles Bridges has been playing some of his best basketball in April, averaging 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists on a great 60/57/67 shooting splits. But even with his strong production, ...

In an era where digital marketing trends change overnight and brands constantly chase virality, one Indian brand has managed to stay consistently relevant for decades—Amul. Known for its witty, ...

In a laboratory building at Fudan University's Handan Campus, a lecture on Introduction to Robotics has just concluded. Instead of leaving immediately, students gather around an experimental ...

Although research in metaheuristics has become increasingly automated, considerable effort is still devoted to identifying new sources of inspiration for the manual design of so-called metaphor-based ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Wildlife poaching is a serious issue in many parts of the world. One way of monitoring ...

Elsewhere on YouTube, older children can easily find disturbing videos depicting abusive and violent scenes featuring popular children’s characters. Facebook pages are uploading altered images that ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...