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Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis. But now, an AI-powered platform developed by researchers at the Department ...

Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological legend about an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces. He used it ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

A new book covering the history of scientific inquiry invites us to marvel at the elegance of experimentation. Some philosophers have argued that “beauty” in science stands as a proxy for truth. Many ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Lynn Thorndike, professor of history at Columbia University, this week turned out two final chunky volumes of his six-tome monumental History of Magic & Experimental Science, thereby completing almost ...

There seems to be widespread misunderstanding of science experiments and what they can tell us. Everyone should be aware of the uncertainty in experiments and the lack of generalizability to every ...