Science

Rapid testing is important, but there's a wealth of other information that could have offered us quicker insight into the spread of COVID...

Before COVID, I would often be embarrassed when I didn't recognize someone while walking my dog. Not now...

Take an acoustic journey into some of the most unique places in the country...

Take an acoustic journey into some of the most unique places in the country...

The technique could someday help astronauts sustainably live and work on the Red Planet...

It will become increasingly untenable to reduce U.S. immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security...

The goal sets a high bar for other countries attending today's global climate summit...

The goal sets a high bar for other countries attending today's global climate summit...

On Earth Day, Scientific American sits down with National Geographic underwater photographer Brian Skerry to talk about free diving with whales and filming the giant mammals within five meters or......

As early-career researchers, we argue that it also has to prioritize justice and social equity...

A new tool can help land managers focus their efforts to restore forests...

The virus is spreading faster than ever before in the country despite previous high infection rates in megacities, which should have conferred some protection...

U.N. recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature...

Leading experts assess what they see as the likely moves...

Accountability, demilitarization and the transfer of responsibilities to social workers are needed to remake our overly antagonistic law-enforcement agencies...

The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists...

The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists...

In the centuries before envelopes, "letterlocking" secured a message's information...

Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing "We Shall Overcome"...

Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed...

Most people think tear gas is relatively harmless, but we know very little about its long-term effects on human health and the environment...

One expert warns that the field is overpromising, while another says his firm is on the verge of building "useful" machines...

Climate remains in the background during talks about the Biden administration's infrastructure plan...

An anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan describes the new influx of patients and what this may mean for the pandemic's trajectory...

New research shows that members of the colony all have the same gut microbiomes, which controls their smell, which controls their ability to separate family from foe....

New research shows that members of a bee colony all have the same gut microbiome, which controls their smell—and thus their ability to separate family from foe....

DNA has upended neat and tidy accounts of the peopling of the American continents...

Sharing "an acute appreciation for science"...

A sweeping overhaul could make the gas system a much cleaner energy source...

Tests on excavated paintings revealed corrosive salts coming from surrounding volcanic material...

But questions remain about how much greenhouse gases would actually be reduced...

Researchers are applying strategies honed during the 2020 US presidential election to track anti-vax propaganda...

Scientists and engineers react with elation to the historic interplanetary flight...

A long history of racism and misogyny set the stage for recent violence, including a murderous "bad day" in Atlanta...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars's thin atmosphere...

With no training, counselors feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people anxious about the climate emergency...

Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories...

Rapid at-home tests for contaminants are on the way...

Increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are taking an enormous toll on the human body—and it's getting worse...

Pandemic highlights for the week...

Recently approved rapid antigen tests are likely to help mitigate the chain of transmission and put the U.S. on par with other countries that have them...

Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a......

After a record-setting year for hurricanes and wildfires, the insurance industry is grappling with the role of our climate emergency in estimating local disaster damages...

Australia's critically endangered regent honeyeaters are losing what amounts to their culture—and that could jeopardize their success at landing a mate....

Shipwreck victims cast adrift for weeks or months exhibit a resilience that serves as a model to weather any extended crisis...

For the first time, a randomized controlled trial shows the psychedelic offers potent, if short-term, relief in comparison with an SSRI...

It's a major public health issue, and discussing it should part of routine care, no different than questions about health risk factors like smoking, substance use and diet...

Inspiring individuals from Argentina, Colombia and Kuwait lay out actions that can improve people's lives...

It's hard to say at this point, but a crucial first step is to establish whether they exist so any future arrival won't come as a complete surprise...

How to feel less stressed and more empowered and to create a life of meaning—without your phone...