The viral TikTok trend encourages people to "eat the rainbow" by adding more colorful pant foods to every mean. Here's why ...

BioMarin is raising awareness of phenylketonuria (PKU) through TikTok and its new video podcast, “Why Do I Pheel This Way?,” hosted by two young people living with the disease. The three-part podcast ...

Raphael Gomes puts every viral TikTok food trend to the test to determine which ones actually work.

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

Even though relations between China and America remain tense, many young Americans’ perspectives seem to be shifting as they adopt Chinese cultural habits. The online trend, dubbed Chinamaxxing, has ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

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 ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

Jiun Youn is a lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where she teaches biological psychology and psychopharmacology. One evening a few months ago, I opened an e-mail from a ...