Contact, Children of Men, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all among the most realistic hard sci-fi movies of all time.

I'm not sure what specific type of ADHD I have, but I know how having it affects me. Now, I'm curious as to what my diagnosis actually is.

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Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape ...

A new genome-based study suggests that ancient sharks like frilled and cow sharks could sit outside the family tree that ...

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Helen Pearson’s “Beyond Belief” profiles figures who propelled medicine and other fields toward evidence-based thinking.

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Have you ever been chatting with a customer service rep and just felt like they’re a little off? Well, customer service ...

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...