Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...

Astronauts famously call the NASA team in Houston when they have a problem in space, but control rooms at Huntsville’s ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New York City office. I walk past it multiple times a day, and one line of text ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

The 3rd annual STARward STEM Expo took place on Tuesday at Douglas Byrd High School in Fayetteville. The event hosted over 200 students representing teams from kindergarten through the 12th grade.

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...