Science

Applicants for EPA carbon-storage permits must persuade the agency that they can contain both the plume of injected carbon dioxide...

Long thought to be silent, two species of stingrays have now been shown to make strange clicking noises, which could...

A Home Office report on supposed scientific methods for estimating ages is likely to recommend the use of dental X-rays,...

A device can eavesdrop on someone talking near a fibre-optic cable, even if there is a large distance between them...

About 11 to 15 per cent of women seem to have issues with smell and taste at least six months...

At the Rushton Woods Preserve outside of Philadelphia, birds are being outfitted with tiny radio trackers that give us unprecedented...

By using 3D-printed models and dropping them into a tank, researchers have found the maximum heights people can dive from...

World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has now officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international...

An 8-gram actuator - a device that converts energy and signals into movement - that operates as artificial muscles lifted...

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

An abridged inventory of everything there is in the universe – from rogue planets and exomoons to supernovae, supermassive black...

In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to. And though it might not be bad for human...

Archaeological and genetic evidence casts doubt on the idea that the ability to digest lactose after infancy evolved gradually Humans...

Only 20 percent of computer science and 22 percent of engineering undergraduate degrees in the U.S. go to women. Women...

Jet A-1, a straw-colored, kerosene-based fuel used in most big airplanes, is a difficult substance to replace. It’s packed with...

Russia will opt out of the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2024, the new chief of Russia’s federal space...