For decades, psychologists have thought of creativity as a key trait that would set us apart from machines, even as they ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Discover the November 2025 Beaver Moon, a rare supermoon that peaks on 5 November. Learn what the name means, the spiritual ...

Dag Hessen views these resilient animals as wilderness in animal form, representing all that's lost to us in a world being steadily reduced to a tame vestige of its former self.

EPFL researchers have engineered a fiber-based electronic sensor that remains functional even when stretched to over 10 times ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

They have been there for millennia, before the earth was born, taking light years to reach us. For all you know, that shining ...

An empty shop unit in the town centre is being put to good use during the half term. The Swindon Imaginarium will fill part of the Brunel Shopping Centre with hands-on activities, free workshops and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Travel involves two main expenditures of energy: fighting gravity and propelling ...

Researchers have cracked the code behind how plants make mitraphylline, a rare cancer-fighting molecule. Their discovery of two critical enzymes explains how nature builds complex spiro-shaped ...