On Sept. 15, 2020, for the first time in Scientific American's 175-year history, the popular science magazine made a presidential endorsement -- Joe Biden.

Researchers found that the gains in average life expectancy during the last century are unlikely to continue. The reasons for that increase were a huge downturn in infant mortality along with medical ...

The arrival of GLP-1 receptor agonists and dual agonists has delivered unprecedented efficacy, reframed obesity as a chronic ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, has died at the age of 94.

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played one of the beloved Munchkins in the 1939 classic “The Wizard ...

Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at ...

Not every wonderful breakthrough in science and technology was created intentionally. A chance discovery or invention is an unexpected realization and insight that occurs without direct intention.

Botanical gardens are living museums where history, culture, and nature come together in breathtaking harmony. Across the ...

This is a very broad theme and to give you a detailed account of it, in the time at our disposal today, would be impossible. ...

Eugenics fell out of intellectual favor because it became identified with Nazi policies. But it has come out of the shadows ...

Here are 10 sci-fi movies that would have won Oscars if the world were a just and fair place.

The Cleveland Way offers forest, moorland, ridges, beaches, cliffs and one incredibly famous little mountain. We walked the ...