Stories by Emma Gometz

Fossils are selling for tens of millions of dollars at auction. But why are the ancient creatures the hot new thing for the ultrarich?

This sweet film uncovers bitter disagreements among urban ecology and conservation experts that go way beyond just one owl

The Swedish engineer influencer has spent over a decade on YouTube growing a loyal audience of over 2.5 million followers, but for her, the journey was all about living a less typical life in science.

The “hero’s journey” narrative structure seen in the ancient Greek story can help people make meaning in their own lives

To align Coordinated Universal Time with Earth’s rotation, a second occasionally gets added to the year. That may change in 2027

Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts

The Trump administration wanted the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be “American flag blue.” A water-treatment expert explains why the pool is still algal green and why the bloom could keep coming back

Understanding the behavior of supermassive black holes

The new movie Disclosure Day is all about a big alien secret. But SETI researchers behind the updated postdetection protocol say they aren’t in the business of secrets

The filmmaker behind the newly released movie Silent Friend shares the scientific and historical inspiration for its story of botanical consciousness

Scientists long assumed Venus’s harsh environment would quickly destroy artifacts from probe missions. But a new study makes a compelling case to the contrary

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the empire’s fall

Earth’s gravitational force, g, has been known for centuries. But the exact value of G, the universal gravitational constant, is elusive

A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Artemis II’s safe return from lunar orbit sparks a debate over the costs, climate effects and long‑term value of going back to the moon

Pesticides on your produce can be easily removed with common kitchen ingredients

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the inside of a beehive

Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them

This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion

In the Oscar-nominated film Bugonia, Emma Stone’s character is accused of being an alien. But would we know extraterrestrial life if we saw it on Earth?

Scientists have used the tragic reality of roadkill to study the spread of invasive species, track animals’ dining habits and even discover new species

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth

The Bronx Zoo is celebrating 15 years of its extremely popular Valentine’s Day “Name a Roach” program

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought