I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Every year, millions of people start taking a drug with therapeutic effects that can’t be fully explained, for a condition that can’t be ...

A new White House report argues that eight decades of science policy that helped make the United States the world’s scientific leader is too bureaucratic, too focused on institutions rather than ...

After graduating from Marist University with a degree in communications and journalism, Dan Girolamo has over 10 years of experience writing about entertainment and sports. Dan's work can be seen in ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Believe it or not, I’m a meat scientist. I study ...

When Farin Kamangar was training as a physician in the 1980s, he asked patients about three lifestyle factors that could affect their health: alcohol, smoking and coffee. Though coffee didn’t have the ...

The science and technology explainers warned audiences in the past about the entropy AI will unleash upon the web and, after being forced to remove a video on microscopic superpredators, they're ...

For decades, popular science has relied on charismatic guides to make the vastness of the universe comprehensible. Carl Sagan explored the cosmos from a dandelion-seed spacecraft, Bill Nye turned ...

Bertalan Meskó is the director of The Medical Futurist Institute, Budapest, Hungary, and is affiliated with the University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. Josip Car is a professor and director of King ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology. By K. R. Callaway SpudCell is a synthetic cell made by scientists at the ...

The new series has premiered at Annecy where director Mokochan underlined wanting a 'human feel,' to get close to the original manga by Masamune Shirow Making an adaptation which more closely ...

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research reveals the process is far more remarkable: young worker bees ...