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This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has...

Global change and human actions are driving rapid changes to tidal wetlands – tidal marshes, mangroves and tidal flats –...

Tanya Lewis: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I'm Tanya Lewis. On Monday a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked,...

E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple...

The system, comparable in size to an AA battery, contains a type of non-toxic algae called Synechocystis that naturally harvests energy from...

For the first 40 years of their life, Texas resident Kelly Fleming spent a portion of most years in a...

The UK government’s plans to launch an agency to fund high-risk, high-reward research have been thrown off course Technology 13...

For green energy experts, it seems like there’s too much of a good thing right now. While it’s great that...

A single hormone appears to coordinate the lifespan extension produced by a low-protein diet. A new study from Pennington Biomedical...

Suzanne Myers was sick, concerned and a little confused. Myers, a 55-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and her husband...

By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal...

In a perfect world, abortion access would be easy. The minute you realized you needed an abortion, you’d be able...

Greys and whites split the sea,mottled flecks of creamthat simmer in the surf,hinting at the beaststhat lurk beneath.Metallic vessels tower...

A leaked memo has revealed that the Supreme Court plans to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. If this...

A study looking at more than 55,000 pairs of words has found why word pairings like "funk fungus" and "gnome...

What blows through the Sahara doesn’t stay in the Sahara. The vast African desert regularly burps up clouds of dust...