Elon Musk funded an XPrize for carbon removal, but his actions in the Trump administration have cut funding for climate ...

Rather than resurrect extinct species, cloning technology could save those at risk of dying out, like the red wolf, but only ...

As children get older, their understanding of science and being a scientist changes. The words adults use are a critical part ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. It goes without saying that a lot has changed at Scientific American since our first issue came out in 1845.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Similar to other professions, science has organizations that represent scientists and the research they do. Too many are ...

But Kennedy’s greatest breach with the scientific consensus was likely his insistence that autism is an “epidemic” that must be caused by an environmental exposure that has been introduced ...

But a leaked draft of the president’s 2026 budget request, which Scientific American has reviewed, instead calls for canceling Roman. “This is nuts. You’ve built it, and you’re not going ...

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Marijuana contains more than 500 active compounds. But most people focus on two: There’s cannabidiol, or CBD, which reduces inflammation. And then there’s THC, which is the main psychoactive ...

There are only so many colors that the typical human eye can see; estimates put the number just below 10 million. But now, for the first time, scientists say they’ve broken out of that familiar ...