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On Monday, April 18th, a judge struck down the federal mandate requiring masks for travel.  But five days earlier, the...

Photograph: Tyler JonesNASA performed a few experiments following the 1960s and ’70s moon landing missions that brought back lunar material,...

Black holes are invisible by nature. Their pull is inescapable, forever trapping any light that falls into their gravitational abyss....

Tulika Bose: This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Tulika Bose. Today — super massive news from space. The first...

Slow progress on the UK’s 25-year environment plan could lead to ecological tipping points such as collapsing fish stocks, says...

Next, they proved that the bots could swim. In test tubes containing urea, the microbots reached speeds of up to...

  Biologist Dr Martin Denzel is no different, though he tends to shy away from any promise of a quick...

Carter Newell owns and operates one of the most productive mussel farms in the state of Maine. One frigid spring...

The Research Excellence Framework, an assessment of UK universities' research output, has found that "world-leading" research is distributed across the...

In April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dropped a gargantuan report examining how humans might mitigate the worst impacts...

Neurodegenerative diseases damage and destroy neurons, ravaging both mental and physical health. Parkinson’s disease, which affects over 10 million people...

China is undeniably one of the world’s top players in space these days, with successful missions to the moon and...

The shape of a city can influence the amount of rainfall it gets, because circular cities are better at mixing...

But the weight of the needed solar equipment would go up to more than 20 tons for a Mars outpost...

Scientists have revived light-sensing neuron cells in organ donor eyes and restored communication between them as part of a series...

Deep in a bacterium’s gelatinous matrix dwell little “cellular machines” called retrons, which produce single strands of DNA to detect...