In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end ...

Science guy Steve Spangler and his assistant Aahan show us how to make our own lava lamps and the science behind them.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Learn how cotton candy is created through a controlled sugar-spinning experiment inspired by unconventional household methods ...