Canada’s rivers have powered industry, cities and communities for more than a century. The next challenge is to use water ...

California-based Valar Atomics has successfully used its Ward 250 reactor to power an Nvidia chip, a first-of-its-kind ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

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The low-cost ocean current energy generator invented by a teenager is getting international attention yet again for its promise of providing clean electricity to distant coastal areas. Hannah Herbst, ...

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say. By Alexis Soloski “The stars weren’t big enough,” ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

The Ohio EPA is spending more than $77,000 to help keep drinking water reliable for residents along the U.S. 30 corridor. Those funds will complete four upgrades throughout Richland, Crawford and ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.