Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

The National Institutes of Health said it pulled the policy because of language on diversity and inclusion, in line with ...

Strong Scientific Leaders Must Speak Out against the Trump Administration’s Science Denial The U.S. National Academy of ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Few outpatient medical procedures inspire as much negativity as the colonoscopy. In honor of Colorectal Cancer ...

I often ask my kids to help around the house. Feed our dog. Put clean dishes in cabinets and drawers. Sweep up crumbs after dinner. We are a Montessori family, so a lot of this stuff falls under ...

The Massapequa Chiefs are calling on the commander-in-chief for help. Furious school-board members in the Long Island town are asking President Trump to help them fight to keep their district’s ...

For decades, Keith Krehbiel took high doses of medications with a debilitating side effect—severe nausea—following his diagnosis with early-onset Parkinson’s disease at age 42 in 1997.

Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every known elementary particle has a heavier “superpartner” particle, has been the superstar of theoretical physics for the past half century. Its ...

When I give a public talk about space and show off the latest dazzling images from the Hubble Space Telescope or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), one of the most common questions I get is, “Is ...

From AI to e-bikes, hydrogen fuel cells to 3D printers, new technologies are emerging quickly, and our changing climate is unleashing powerful storms and wildfires. This special report explores ...

In his January inaugural address, President Donald Trump declared that we will “pursue our Manifest Density into the stars” and “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.” He ...

D-Wave, a Palo Alto, Calif.–based technology firm, made a scientific and stock-market splash on Wednesday with its declaration of a breakthrough in quantum computing. But for some experts, the ...