Negotiations with the Trump administration around fuel efficiency requirements broke down this week | Continue reading
Johnson & Johnson has submitted its esketamine for regulatory approval, but researchers still don't understand how the fast-acting antidepressant lifts moods | Continue reading
The mission to Asteroid Ryugu could return samples of the space rock to Earth in 2020 | Continue reading
Biology at the center of last year’s contentious gene-edited twins result may hold other benefits for brain injury | Continue reading
An asteroid impact and volcanoes acting together could have done in the beasts, new rock dates indicate | Continue reading
The droughts and deluges spurred by the events could be worse even if the El Niño cycle does not change | Continue reading
An Israeli firm is sending a privately built craft to the Moon—and leading a fresh era of exploration | Continue reading
A newly discovered class of odd stars appears to have persevered through supernova explosions—providing a rare glimpse into these astrophysical catastrophes | Continue reading
The incidence of foodborne illness could jump in a warming world, due to an increase in housefly activity. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Kent State epidemiologist Tara Smith talks about vaccines, recent preventable measles outbreaks and her 2017 journal article on vaccine rejection. | Continue reading
Before you set your fitness goals in stone, here are a few wishes from some fitness professionals that you may want to keep in mind | Continue reading
Study shows the power of the “argument dilution effect” | Continue reading
Under the emergency declaration, some money to build the wall will come from a military construction account | Continue reading
Plasma from young people offers “no proven clinical benefit” as a treatment against aging or Alzheimer’s disease, the agency says | Continue reading
Eradicating harmful species may have unintended consequences | Continue reading
Social insects such as ants and bees often have complex societies, but understanding the genetics behind their social interactions can be difficult due to their complex lifecycles. This lab in New York hopes to investigate the genetics of ant social behavior by focusing on an unu … | Continue reading
A key report on needed improvements to flood maps has been stalled since September | Continue reading
A new genetic study of Latin Americans provides evidence that gene variants for lighter skin color came about in Asia as well as in Europe. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
As automated delivery ramps up, cities must decide how to make the best use of public spaces | Continue reading
Seismologist and policy advisor Lucy Jones says science education needs to teach how science works more than just what it finds out. | Continue reading
A severe and persistent drought has led to rationing of water and electricity from hydropower | Continue reading
GPS measurements the flexing movement of one of the ice shelves that act as key backstops to sea level rise | Continue reading
Reservoirs may promote waste by creating a false sense of water security | Continue reading
A recent study claims to confirm that eating organic can reduce your risk of getting cancer. But a closer look at the details reveals a different story | Continue reading
Deer populations have exploded in North American woodlands, changing forest ecology—and how sounds, like birdsong, travel through the trees. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The fossilized print, found in Gibraltar, is said to date to 28,000 years ago, which might mean it belonged to a Neandertal. But not everyone agrees with that interpretation | Continue reading
Heat-absorbing black carbon comes from fossil fuels in winter and biomass burning in summer | Continue reading
Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation | Continue reading
When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it | Continue reading
Whales in southeastern Alaska produce “shrieks,” “moans” and “squeegies” that persist over generations | Continue reading
Elephants have six sets of teeth over their lives, sometimes two sets at once. At those times, they can extract more nutrition from food and put on weight. | Continue reading
How does our outlook on life, the world, and the future affect our health and well-being? | Continue reading
As northern landscapes warm, researchers are looking to understand the role of lakes in the carbon cycle | Continue reading
New observations of a superluminous supernova could finally solve the mystery behind these and other bewildering cosmic events | Continue reading
The rover Opportunity has called it quits after working for more than 14 years on Mars. | Continue reading
A new tool compares what the climate of towns will be in 2080 to various locations today | Continue reading
Abandoned projects and delayed research have become common problems as security issues crop up across the country | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered the culprit: how the sun squeezes Earth’s magnetic tail | Continue reading
Global warming and an urban heat island effect pose a major health challenge to the city | Continue reading
On this 210th anniversary of Darwin's birth, we hear evolution writer and historian Richard Milner perform a brief monologue as Charles Darwin, and former Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie and Darwin's great-great-grandson Matthew Chapman read excerpts from the Orig … | Continue reading
There’s a good reason to salt the roads before snow starts falling | Continue reading
AI enhancement and a virtual time machine are included in the shortlist of pitches | Continue reading
The newfound crater candidate is thought to be unrelated to another that was discovered last year | Continue reading
Design principles derived from observing fruit flies may lead to better self-driving cars and improved Parkinson’s treatment | Continue reading
Several states are working to decarbonize their electric sectors with options from solar power to nuclear energy | Continue reading
A study in Seattle shows the power of starting the day later | Continue reading
How does the laser technology that earned the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics come into our everyday lives? | Continue reading
A surge in occultation science is allowing astronomers to study the sun’s asteroids, planets and moons like never before | Continue reading