In the spring of 2024 Jeffery DelViscio (seen freezing above), who is Scientific American’s chief multimedia editor, spent a month on a scientific expedition on the Greenland ice sheet. The sun never ...

In 350 B.C.E. Aristotle noted that some people went about their days with what he called “short sight.” People with this condition, he found, would habitually narrow their eyelids to focus their ...

I was astounded by the challenges to leaving Earth detailed by Sarah Scoles in “Why We'll Never Live in Space.” I could only conclude that we will never achieve this goal. But then I visualized ...

Paul Alexander (known as “Polio Paul” on social media) died at age 78 in a Dallas hospital earlier this month. He was 6 years old in 1952 when he contracted polio, just three years before the ...

Boston Scientific has issued a recall for certain ENDOTAK RELIANCE Defibrillation leads due to their polytetrafluoroethylene coated coils requiring early replacement. The ENDOTAK RELIANCE is used for ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) is one of the best high-volume stocks to invest in. On August 6, the FDA announced that it is monitoring a safety issue with Boston Scientific Corporation’s ...

In 2020, on a trip to Devon, England, Jennifer N. R. Smith (above) went swimming in the sea. Just as night fell, the water began to glow with light from bioluminescent algae. “It’s electric blue,” she ...