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Pakinam Amer: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Pakinam Amer. Clicks, clucks, grunts, and snorts—these are not sounds that...

Hundreds of cement pillars with hooks have been deployed in the Gulf of California to snag fishing nets that threaten...

As a nerdy, nature-loving kid growing up in France, Barbara Belvisi daydreamed about life on other planets: giant domes filled...

State Department personnel working at embassies and consulates around the world face heightened safety and security risks from climate disasters—particularly...

An experimental HIV vaccine led to antibodies against the virus in 35 out of 36 volunteers, but whether this offers...

Smith told WIRED that Amazon keeps patient health information confidential and secure in compliance with federal law and regulations, and...

Five billion people, or around two-thirds of the world’s population, will face at least one month of water shortages by...

A gel that has prevented almost all of 1 billion sperm getting past the cervix in sheep could become an...

Scott Kennedy, senior adviser with the Washington, DC, think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, visited China in October....

On the evening of December 7, 2022, people in a large fraction of the U.S. will be able to see...

The population of Union Island geckos plummeted due to growing demand from the illegal international pet trade, but conservationists working...

For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width to...

Wolves infected with a common parasite are more likely than uninfected animals to lead a pack, according to an analysis...

By Michael Le Page The Amami spiny ratASATO KUROIWA For any mammal, the loss of the Y chromosome should mean...

Another unit is the bar, where 1 bar is equal to 14.5 psi. The value of 1 bar is very...

If Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock wants to win next month’s Senate runoff election, he should lean into climate policy,...