It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

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Canada’s National Research Council boldly advertises itself as “advancing mission-driven science and innovation” — to strengthen national security, economic resilience and global competitiveness. This ...

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Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at [email protected]. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

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 ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

The technical merits of every science fiction film get debated ad nauseam, and we’re seeing that with Project Hail Mary. NASA has even posted a page on its website discussing the movie’s science. And ...

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 ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.