To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the ...

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its ...

It’s not normal for public health to be so partisan.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to end its monkey research program will affect studies involving ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

And people should think carefully about what they eat to meet those needs. “On social media, it’s like everyone’s worried ...

The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say ...

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins ...