Things have been tumultuous lately on Earth. Donald Trump will soon be sworn in as U.S. president, wars are raging, and ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

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 ...

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The universe’s light-starved early epochs, as well as the first stars and galaxies, lie beyond the reach of conventional ...

“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 ...

Bhattacharya is not what the NIH needs. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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 ...

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 ...