It’s Nightmare on Nerd Street—and your science-inspired Halloween costume could win SciFri’s first-ever costume contest.

With gaps in weather balloon data, the National Weather Service didn’t have accurate projections of the worst flooding from ...

While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than ...

While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than ...

Data from the Webb Space Telescope may hold evidence of ancient "dark stars," which would've been powered by dark matter, not nuclear fusion.

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

When the Nobel committee called, Fred Ramsdell did not pick up. Plus, searching ancient archaea for solutions to modern ...

What does AI do with human feelings? To investigate its readiness to serve as a therapist, a neuroscientist took ChatGPT for ...

Colonization deprived us of the means to provide for our families and live a Yurok way of life. The Yurok people’s ability to ...

A nutrition scientist found that the reality show’s contestants’ metabolisms slowed after participating—and didn’t recover.

The authors of “Food Intelligence” answer listener questions and discuss how our food systems make staying healthy an uphill battle.