Local coalitions across the USA have been turning to low-cost air sensors and mobile monitors to detect dangerous pollution in places the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-led national network ...

Anyone who has read (or at least started) Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary in the lead-up to the new book-to-screen adaptation starring Ryan Gosling knows that there’s a whole lot of "sci" in this sci-fi ...

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 ...

The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

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 ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...

Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as a science teacher who wakes up aboard a spaceship on a one-way mission to save Earth — but with no memory of how he got there. It's based on a novel of the same ...

Forget Ryan Gosling. Science was the real star of the show at a special advance screening of the new film Project Hail Mary for University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory staff and students ...

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep. There’s a witty callback to this practice, known as “delivering ...

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 ...

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday. By Katrina Miller Katrina attended a panel featuring the “Project ...

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 ...