“The FAA continues to support interagency partners to assess the situation and the ongoing reported drone sightings,” a representative of the agency told Scientific American. But just how many ...

“The most puzzling aspect of the recent discovery of a new kind of subnuclear particle at two high-energy-­physics laboratories is the particle’s extra­ordinarily long lifetime of 10 –20 ...

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For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re kicking off a four-part Fascination series about the evolving world of animal conservation. We’re calling it ...

People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about this “bandwidth ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small. And many ...

RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health RFK, Jr., could restructure the CDC, FDA and NIH in pursuit of his flawed vision of public ...

RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health RFK, Jr., could restructure the CDC, FDA and NIH in pursuit of his flawed vision of public ...

How the Nutrition Facts Label Has Changed Food in the U.S. Almost all packaged food sold in the U.S. for the past three decades has sported a Nutrition Facts label, with major consequences for the ...

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On average, the shoreline changed at a rate ... A new study in published in Scientific Reports suggests that the perfect cup of coffee is influenced by a complex blend of variables such as bean ...