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Nearly half of the lightning strikes in northern California over the past three decades occurred on days with little to...

The Democrats’ new climate bill, which was passed by the US Senate on Sunday, has been described as “transformative” and...

Few biological facts seem as irrevocable as brain death. It has long been assumed that when we die, our neurons...

News of a $190 million cryptocurrency theft emerged this week, despite cryptocurrencies being designed to be unhackable. Here's the low-down...

By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing power to test...

Rahul Aggarwal was in medical school when he got the surprising news that his mother—a fit woman in her 40s—had...

The US senate is set to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which would include the largest climate spending...

You were one of those people with four doses.That’s right, and I was also able to get a prophylactic monoclonal...

An analysis of the 200 largest fossil fuel companies suggests that just 10 shareholders could influence the fate of nearly...

And it’s only going to get worse. In a 2020 paper, University of Washington researchers calculated that the average number...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of...

Smart finger uses sensors to detect substances such as glass, silicon and wood with more than 90 per cent accuracy,...

You were one of those people with four doses.That’s right, and I was also able to get a prophylactic monoclonal...

At last year's Glasgow COP26 meetings on the climate crisis, U.S. envoy and former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry...

The transfusion led an increased number of senescent cells – which accumulate as we get older - in the young...

Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the line. But in...