Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the fundamentalists “refuse to be buried.” A century later, the funeral for ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

The most powerful public health official in the US is reviled by some medics - but even some of his critics accept that he is bringing drive to healthcare areas that have long been neglected ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Health on Tuesday night about his previous co-authorization on a controversial COVID-19 declaration and his vision for the ...

The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

A startling new vision of vaccination in America is becoming clearer — one likely to involve fresh scrutiny of established science and practices, and limits on vaccines that have been studied for ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Dr. Levi and Vicky Pebsworth, a nurse affiliated with an anti-vaccine group, voted against recommending clesrovimab; the ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted U.S. strikes delivered a crushing blow to Iran's nuclear program. "This was a devastating attack, and it knocked them for a loop," Trump said as his ...

The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is ...