Some of these killed people. Some broke people's minds. And some poisoned entire cities. From the Demon Core to Chernobyl's liquidators, these are 25 real science experiments and projects that went ...

(Original Caption) Lana, a 21/2 year old chimpanzee, uses a typewriter like device to punch out sentences using symbols for words in an experiment April 27th at the Yerkes Regional Primate Center at ...

Skyrmions are nanometer- to micrometer-sized magnetic whirls that exhibit particle-like properties and can be moved efficiently by electrical currents. These properties make skyrmions an excellent ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...

The rules of statistical physics address the uncertainty about the state of a system that arises when that system interacts with its environment. But they've long missed another kind. In a new paper, ...