When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Democrats hosted a protest event featuring ‘things we’ll never know’ because of the US government’s cuts to science.

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

This was unreplicable for several reasons. First, "prisoners" were not protected from the "guards," which cannot be allowed ...

Home-delivery customers of The Cumberland Times-News will receive their newspapers late on Wednesday due to a power outage in ...

By spinning bacteria in a controlled flow, scientists produce aligned cellulose sheets with tensile strength over 500 MPa.

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To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...