Science

An analysis of 1.2 million Reddit users found that around 16 per cent of people wrote toxic posts and 13...

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most...

Several US agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), will see a...

The navigation strategy of NASA's Curiosity rover means it has to stop frequently to check its position, but soon a...

It was 4 am on June 17 when Michelle Edwards, associate director of Kitt Peak National Observatory, got the news:...

CLIMATEWIRE | A blockbuster new study has inspired days of dire headlines about the rising risk of catastrophic “megafloods” in California....

Because of a calibration update for one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s main cameras, research using the first few...

According to the New Jersey lawsuit, police had reopened an investigation into a cold case and had used genetics to...

ANGEL, MONSTER When sea angels hunt, they transform into monsters. The free-swimming slugs, less than an inch long, store six...

The Airbus Zephyr S, a military reconnaissance aircraft, has more than doubled the record it set in 2018 for an...

The lack of a US supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials is often spun as a tale of inconvenient...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. They say that lions are the king of the...

More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after...

Once found, these inscrutable rules have helped particle physicists calculate scattering amplitudes at much higher levels of precision than they...

On a sultry June day, climate scientist James Hansen testified in front of a committee of the U.S. Senate, telling...

Simulations of a quantum computer made of six rubidium atoms suggest it could run a simple brain-inspired algorithm that can...