Engineering

The ambitious plan to send astronauts to lunar orbit has drawn skepticism 

At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about American's energy future.  

For years critics have claimed grid costs and stability will spiral out of control before we hit 20 percent renewable energy. Texas is proving them wrong

To truly understand data, we need to rethink what we mean by "measurement"

New artificial intelligence systems are using “adversarial networks” to develop creativity and originality by more fluidly mixing and matching real-world information

After more than a decade of activity, the Google Lunar XPRIZE is concluding—but the race to the moon continues

AI scientists try to trick smart systems into making dumb gaffes

You probably think of them as AI-driven, autonomous machines, but that's far too limited a view

The GeoCARB satellite will map the concentrations of key greenhouse gases over the Americas

An algorithm originally designed to help robots move was useful in tackling an entirely different problem

Wireless sensor networks could tell engineers when key structural elements of bridges, highways and buildings are dangerously weak

Researchers used autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles to survey the Havre volcano in the Pacific Ocean, leading to a new discovery about submarine volcano deposits.