Engineering

Start by understanding why people are so reluctant to trust AI in the first place

Rumors swirl around whether or not a mysterious spacecraft successfully entered and began operations in low Earth orbit

Five siblings team up to reinvent the one piece of equipment you need to play the game previously known as "Ultimate Frisbee"

The era of “multimessenger astronomy” has arrived 

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

A new airplane design could save up to 66 percent in fuel and fly by 2035

Challenges include navigating tunnel network, subterranean transit system and natural caves

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s artificial intelligence chief describes the “ultimate” test for AI in space exploration

Scientists are exploring the use of fiber-optic cables—like the ones that form the backbone of the internet—to monitor earthquakes. Julia Rosen reports.

To fully utilize the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, researchers will have to squeeze a generation of scientific studies into the multibillion-dollar observatory’s short lifetime

Researchers trained machine-learning algorithms to pinpoint the location of a cargo ship simply by eavesdropping on the sound of its passing. Christopher Intagliata reports.