Cell-cultured salmon is showing up on menus. How does it compare to the real thing? Plus, food innovations from cultivated ...
A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...
A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...
While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than ...
In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...
A nutrition scientist found that the reality show’s contestants’ metabolisms slowed after participating—and didn’t recover.
What does AI do with human feelings? To investigate its readiness to serve as a therapist, a neuroscientist took ChatGPT for ...
It’s Nightmare on Nerd Street—and your science-inspired Halloween costume could win SciFri’s first-ever costume contest.
Data from the Webb Space Telescope may hold evidence of ancient "dark stars," which would've been powered by dark matter, not nuclear fusion.
In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.
With gaps in weather balloon data, the National Weather Service didn’t have accurate projections of the worst flooding from ...
A 19th century doctor was able to pinpoint which homes were affected by contaminated water, and link that to cholera deaths in the area.