The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

GAS CITY, Ind. — Popular author Jodi Picoult said that one parent’s complaint about a non-binary character led to a last-minute cancellation of Mississinewa High School’s planned performance of ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...

There’s an old story from the Jewish tradition about a group of rabbis debating who owns a bird found near a property line. The rule seems simple—birds on one side belong to the property owner, birds ...

Growing up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, nonbinary Inland Empire author Jonathan “Jon Paul” Higgins struggled to find positive representations of their identity. They used media — especially ...

We often hear, “Justice is For All.” – but the question remains: Is this really true?” Justice, often envisioned as the foundation of civilized society, finds itself increasingly strained under the ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...