Scientific American

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now implemented this principle in the laboratory

The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy

A new mathematical model helps to advance the centuries-old art of knitting

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use in modeling gravitational waves

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal