Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

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From public health to space exploration, advisory panels have helped U.S. agencies make smarter decisions. The Trump ...

From cancer cures to climate change, President Donald Trump's administration has upended the American research landscape, ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...

at a cost to the American taxpayer of nearly $50 million annually to care ... How can you fill gaps in the collection of ...

With the troubling, revisionist, and narrow-minded executive order he signed last month called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump isn’t trying so much to kill the ...

Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina was released from Kremlin custody in a prisoner swap with the United States on Thursday morning. Karelina was freed in exchange for German-Russian Arthur ...

The primary culprit? Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report covers the current energy footprint for data centres and forecasts their future needs, which could help governments, companies ...

But free of our tower, we have the power to change it. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...