Science

Further evidence of this bias comes from the reaction of the mice when they were first put into learning situations....

In early October Travis Gienger hauled an enormous white-and-orange monstrosity of a pumpkin from his home in Minnesota to a...

A device that measures acceleration very precisely using quantum effects could be used for navigation when GPS is unavailable Physics...

But you don't have to be a superhero to experience this kind of flight. If you have a set of...

This podcast was produced for the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson by Scientific American Custom Media, a division...

Short spells of extreme heat can be enough to lower a region’s economic output for an entire year, according to...

Today, Ethiopian farmers are feeling the pressure to grow modern monoculture crops, thanks in part to a national push to...

The West is going nuclear. A Bill Gates-backed developer and one of the largest utilities in the Western United States...

Most vaccines are designed to provoke a quick immune response, but a longer one might allow the most effective immune...

Until Ukraine and Russia reach an agreement, the plant remains in danger. “There’s no question: There should not be any...

Although we know early Mars was wetter, warmer and more habitable than the freeze-dried desert world of today, researchers have...

Shock waves from two meteorites hitting Mars moved faster than expected, hinting they came through dense material, perhaps because of...

In the early 2010s, brands began phasing out the plastic microbeads they’d been adding to toothpaste and face scrubs to...

One of Earth’s toughest microbes could survive on Mars, lying dormant beneath the surface, for 280 million years, new research has...

The International Energy Agency finds that the war in Ukraine has accelerated the world’s transition to cleaner energy sources Environment...

The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore....