City leaders in Rancho Cordova, Calif., unanimously approved plans for a massive new development called the Cordova City ...

Christian Thorsberg is an environmental writer and photographer from Chicago. His work, which often centers on freshwater ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous ...

Oxford University Press; £9.99 James Lovelock, an English scientist, devoted the second half of his long life to exploring the idea of Gaia: that the Earth and the life that evolved on it worked in ...

From CASP to the Virtual Cell Challenge, researchers are leveraging science competitions and high-risk, high-reward grants to ...

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our ...

Several stories, including “On the Origin of Birders” and “The Birds Next Door,” spotlight initiatives aimed at inspiring new ...

Below Dr. Bhattacharya is an entrenched bureaucracy. Above him are powerful bosses, focused so far on crackdowns. The hope is ...