Effective altruism has suffered a blow, but the extreme ideas surrounding it have infiltrated some of our most powerful organisations ...

Under the new law, tech giants must take steps to stop users younger than 16 years old from having accounts or face hefty ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

The instrument is creating the largest map of the universe. In mapping, it revealed how large cosmic structures stick ...

Three hitherto unknown letters from Albert Einstein to Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes have surfaced in the archives of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, the museum has ...