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The newly released film Avengers: Endgame can help us make sense of some real-world biotechnology

A first-year college student has rebooted the periodic table of the elements in a whimsical and compelling way

The agency’s chief historian discusses the film and what the moon missions can teach us about global challenges today 

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Scientific American's chief features editor Seth Fletcher talks about his book Einstein's Shadow, an account of the long effort to image a black hole that recently came to fruition.

Jazz composition and performance is the next frontier in creative AI

A deeper data dive calls into question a 2018 study that found a spike in fatal traffic accidents apparently related to marijuana consumption on this date.  

And the winner is … a tale about a parallel universe-hopping psychopath

At an April 9th event sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and produced by Scientific American that honored Nobel and Kavli Prize winners, economist Paul Romer talked about how the social system of science offers hope for humanity and for how we can live with each other.

A former student of the influential philosopher defends him against filmmaker Errol Morris’s “character assassination” 

The popular medical drama gets it right—with a little romance on the side, naturally

Sci-fi has anticipated many scientific and technical breakthroughs—many of which never happened