In spring 2025, nearly 47 percent of workers across all sectors reported using AI tools at least once a month to help them with their work — up from 34 percent the previous year, according to the ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

John Jungjohann is president of Design Plastics Inc., a plastics processor based in Omaha, Neb. Founded in 1972, the company specializes in thermoforming, vacuum forming and injection molding.

When I was a social work graduate student, one of my professors had the class perform an interesting exercise. For five minutes, she instructed us to clench our fists, close our eyes tightly and sit ...

Workers in occupations most exposed to artificial intelligence can earn substantially more after retraining, according to a new working paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Ph.D. candidate ...

Several new projects turn waste into food for microbes that create PHA, a type of plastic that fully decomposes on its own, offering a less costly alternative to current bioplastics. This fork made of ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi pledges to go after "hate speech," saying there's no place for it after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But that isn't U.S. law under the First Amendment, and Kirk himself ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1864 Scientific American published a competition launched by a billiard-table ...

Talks to finalize the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland collapsed in failure Friday as countries remained bitterly divided how to tackle the crisis. The summit, held at ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Mr. Franklin-Wallis is the author of “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future” and an editor at GQ. This essay is part of a series on environmental health. What ...

The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution are seeking a way forward to tackle a global crisis wrecking ecosystems and trashing the oceans. For in-depth ...