A new government report highlights the damage from rising temperatures, including melting permafrost and flooding | Continue reading
While some hydropower facilities release almost no greenhouse gases, others can actually be worse than burning fossil fuels. | Continue reading
Hahn, who has no previous political experience, will be in charge of regulating e-cigarettes, drug pricing and more | Continue reading
The bedrock below Thwaites and other glaciers is conducive to runaway melting that would dramatically raise sea levels | Continue reading
Future batches of the satellite will have a special coating to reduce their reflectivity | Continue reading
As the world scrambles to combat deforestation, experts warn our efforts could have far fewer benefits than we think | Continue reading
People in certain ZIP codes are more likely to purchase products that flop, buy homes that are poor investments, and pick political candidates who lose. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Failures to predict drought and other weather extremes put people in African and small island nations at particular risk | Continue reading
Archaeologists have dated the image to at least 43,900 years ago, but their interpretation has met with doubt | Continue reading
A new proposal pegs the start of the Anthropocene to the little ice age and the Columbian Exchange | Continue reading
Analysis finds that the planet’s protective shield was in place by at least 3.7 billion years ago, as early life arose | Continue reading
The latest brain science on love and play in Scientific American Mind | Continue reading
It may be a traditional cultural practice, but it’s nothing more than violence against women and girls | Continue reading
A new census of the universe’s most luminous objects brings us closer to solving why some of them seem to disappear | Continue reading
Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent. | Continue reading
A mouse study demonstrates it is possible to separate the substance’s ability to enhance sociability from its addictive potential | Continue reading
Diesel delivery vehicles have consequences for the climate and public health | Continue reading
Nanoscale experiments reveal that quantum effects can transmit heat between objects separated by empty space | Continue reading
It’s usually made from petroleum, which is better in a landfill than in a tank of gasoline | Continue reading
Sometimes the best solution to a sticky situation is a quick escape, and few escapes are faster than a trap-jaw ant’s. | Continue reading
Astronauts are giving the International Space Station’s premier science experiment a life-extending transplant to continue its hunt for antimatter, dark matter, and more | Continue reading
Archaeologists unearthed wood from a Roman villa when digging Rome's subway—and scientists determined the planks came all the way from France. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The disease may begin in the womb and require treatment early in life | Continue reading
Scientists found the fingerprints of warming on heat waves, torrential rains and other major events in 2018 | Continue reading
The event shows that even geologically minor eruptions can endanger people | Continue reading
The white bellbird of the Amazon may be the loudest bird in the world. | Continue reading
Steam volcanic eruptions like this one can only be detected seconds or minutes in advance | Continue reading
The provincial government has an expansive plan that ranges from limiting nicotine to raising taxes on the products | Continue reading
A long-sought fossil could redraw our family tree | Continue reading
Could the mysterious particle be our window into studying dark matter? | Continue reading
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Will the benefits of aducanumab be enough to justify FDA approval, given its small benefit and high price? | Continue reading
Spanish oil giant Repsol SA this week announced one of the more ambitious emissions reduction efforts in the industry | Continue reading
The allure of short, intense workouts is obvious. But is High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) really the only workout you need for good overall fitness? | Continue reading
Bats’ hunting angle of approach cuts through the noise | Continue reading
Playing the sounds of a healthy reef near damaged corals may help bring the fish community back. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Its caldera’s dramatic, surprisingly slow collapse could point to other risks worldwide | Continue reading
A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear | Continue reading
Even models in the 1970s accurately predicted the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise | Continue reading
Registered Dietitian Melissa Mitri discusses the importance of good nutrition after giving birth and the five most important nutrients for a new mom and her baby | Continue reading
To cope with climate change, we need every strategy we’ve got | Continue reading
To save quantum mechanics, information must break free from black holes. New observations may help tell us how | Continue reading
Scientists uncover patterns that predict which insects will harm North America’s conifers | Continue reading
A study done in South America found that with increasing population density, humans had more diversity of fungi on the skin but less microbial diversity in the gut. | Continue reading
A study done in South America found that with increasing population density humans had more diversity of fungi on the skin but less microbial diversity in the gut. | Continue reading
Maternal stress arising from perceived racial discrimination could cause premature births and lower birth weights | Continue reading
A genetic condition helps uncover how modern human mugs came to differ from those of Neandertals | Continue reading
The daring mission’s first results reveal surprises about the solar wind | Continue reading