The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other ...

Spanish woman, 25, dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight Nelly Furtado is done with fame. So the Canadian pop icon has exited the stage Health warning as common painkiller ...

In a province used to mining gold, copper and metallurgical coal, neodymium and praseodymium is pretty exotic stuff. The shorthand for this rare earth pairing is NdPr—a critical alloy of “permanent” ...

Anyone who has read (or at least started) Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary in the lead-up to the new book-to-screen adaptation starring Ryan Gosling knows that there’s a whole lot of "sci" in this sci-fi ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...

Forget Ryan Gosling. Science was the real star of the show at a special advance screening of the new film Project Hail Mary for University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory staff and students ...

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep. There’s a witty callback to this practice, known as “delivering ...

Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices. When you ...

Once in a while, a movie comes along that reminds us why the big screen still matters. "Project Hail Mary" is one of those movies for me. It's big, funny, heartfelt, a little nerdy and surprisingly ...

It’s a well-known joke in science fiction fandom circles that the silliest thing about the Star Trek franchise is the lack of seatbelts on various Starfleet craft. That said, in the 1960s, Star Trek ...