The world, in perspective.

None

Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startup’s human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.

The Trump administration’s plan to supercharge scientific discovery.

NASA Science wants to deliver science faster, so we’re changing how we compete and select missions. On Monday, October 26, we will host a virtual NASA Science Town Hall.

<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to replace Stone, James O&rsquo;Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear</p>

Do non-human animals have inner lives? Definitely, argued the late primatologist Frans de Waal, and he spent his life proving it. Michael Marshall enjoys his last book, Minds I've Met

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox on Oct. 9, 2026, safely mixing living cell samples with a bioink and then filling a special cartridge with the cell‑ink mixture. The advanced research operations were part of the InSPA‑Auxilium Bioprinter‑Cell Printing investigatio

<p><i>Scientific American</i> spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts&rsquo;s fourth congressional district about climate change, misinformation and why, when it comes to health care, some socialism may be required</p>

<p>The Major Research Instrumentation program offers grants of up to $4 million to scientists buying or developing research equipment</p>

<p>Play this crossword inspired by the November 2026 issue of<i> Scientific American</i></p>

<p>In 1926 we wrote about how there was a good chance Mars had both plants and animals. And in 1876 we probed the duplicity of the artificial butter business</p>