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

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

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The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its ...

It’s not normal for public health to be so partisan.

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some ...

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Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say ...

After her shocking lung cancer diagnosis, the late Susan Wojcicki dedicated herself to fighting the disease and looking for ...