Physicists studying active matter — materials that can use their own internal energy to respond to forces — have uncovered ...

Species recovery, cancer-preventing vaccines and progress in developing renewable-energy sources are just some of the positive developments that have happened this year so far.

WARSAW – Jefferson Elementary hosted its first annual STEM Science Fair, bringing together students, families and community partners to showcase dozens of students’ hands-on experiments, engineering ...

Judging from the box office numbers, there's a pretty good chance you went and saw Project Hail Mary last weekend. If you're like most people, you walked out of that movie declaring that you, too, ...

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 ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science-fiction thriller Project Hail Mary sticks surprisingly close to the book it’s adapting, a thriller about a lone astronaut trying to save Earth from ...

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 ...

In Project Hail Mary, Dr. Ryland Grace is a humble schoolteacher who one day awakens to find he’s been launched into space as humanity’s last hope for survival. Given the meteoric rise to fame of ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules. Need I mention “Armageddon”? I ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...

Project Hail Mary is a superb piece of science fiction, masterfully acted, perfectly paced, and beautifully directed, and will leave you laughing, crying, and wanting more. Director: Phil Lord and ...