Science

A visa scheme intended to encourage Nobel prize laureates and other scientific award winners to work in the UK has...

In this phase, scores among the liberals—both overall and for vaccine willingness—remained consistently in the 80s, no matter what. Ahn...

In clinics today, fertility patients using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are routinely advised to pay for an expensive supplemental test...

The history books say the infamous plague pandemic of the 14th century killed at least half of the population of...

Most pulsars rotate once every couple of seconds, but one pulsar completes a revolution just once every 76 seconds Space...

Frontier, a supercomputer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the first capable of an exaflop - a billion billion...

A seagrass off the west coast of Australia has grown to be the biggest organism in the world by repeatedly cloning...

Some offspring of the spotted snow skink, a lizard found in Tasmania, are born anatomically male but are genetically female...

During their nightly energy-conserving cooldowns, hummingbirds may strategically adjust just how low their body temperatures go. These tiny powerhouses cool...

A damaged liver that was kept alive and repaired in a machine for three days outside the body before transplantation...

Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemic....

The Omni-Roach robot moves like a cockroach to scale bumps, dodge pillars and wobble through bendy bars, and may become...

In the dense jungles of Cameroon and nearby countries, the population of the iconic and critically endangered western lowland gorilla...

An analysis of zinc isotopes in ancient shark teeth suggests megalodon and great whites ate the same foods, potentially contributing...

A highly infectious and deadly strain of avian influenza virus has infected tens of millions of poultry birds across Europe,...

In the desert of New Mexico, a centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty is being tested as an energy-efficient...