Science

For more than 20 years scientists have known that the drugs we take, for maladies ranging from headaches to diabetes,...

Lyme disease is becoming increasingly common across the world, with warming temperatures one possible culprit for ticks spreading to new...

Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has claimed that the firm's LaMDA artificial intelligence is sentient, but the expert consensus...

A major policy paper fails to address big health and environmental issues it was supposed to tackle, such as how...

For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling...

An AI tool has spotted subtle evidence of changes in flint tools that indicate ancient humans had cooking fires at...

Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation. Yet in any given year, the piecemeal nature...

Some smokers lose their cravings after experiencing damage to specific parts of the brain, suggesting these areas form a network...

After months of suspense, the Federal Aviation Administration has finally weighed in on the environmental effects of the planned expansion...

Scientists have long been in the dark about how deep-diving seals forage for their meals in pitch-black seas, and the...

A robotic arm with an attached microphone learned to locate objects in a bag based on the sound they make,...

When monkeypox briefly found its way into the US in 2003, it infected prairie dogs. “We know that ground squirrels...

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....

Tests in mice show that it is possible to switch off a gene in liver cells for at least 220...

For years, parents asked Danielle Howa Pendergrass to give their kids “the talk.” They worried that all the sex education...

The European Space Agency has released a new tranche of data from its Gaia space observatory, and it could help...