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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A 19th century doctor was able to pinpoint which homes were affected by contaminated water, and link that to cholera deaths ...

We check in on some exciting space missions and projects from IMAP to LIGO. Plus, climate tech companies that have our attention.

AI is everywhere these days, and though there’s debate about how useful it is, one area where experts think it could be game-changing is scientific research. It promised to be particularly useful for ...