In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Project Hail Mary” stayed aloft in its second weekend, holding strongly with $54.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, and adding to the long-term prospects of the year’s ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

As the Trump administration wages war on Iran, it’s citing national security to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico — a move ...

If Pennsylvania decides to legalize recreational marijuana, which government agency should run the show? Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed budget for 2026-27 anticipates lawmakers will legalize it and $729 ...

Students in Generative Art spent the past month developing computer-generated art pieces before getting to project their creations onto campus exteriors. Throughout the creative process, Assistant ...

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 ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...