New data from the European Gaia space telescope could lead to a downward revision to tally of Earth-like worlds | Continue reading
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
A new technique is reviving the century-old study of brain lesions and revealing surprising things about neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease | Continue reading
Remote-sensing studies have revealed the ancient settlements in southern Mexico | Continue reading
The growing gulf between rich and poor inflicts biological damage on bodies and brains | Continue reading
One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products | Continue reading
In the search for electoral fraud, researchers use forensic tool kits to detect statistical signs of ballot stuffing and voter rigging | Continue reading
Mathematicians are developing statistical forensics to identify districts that disenfranchise voters | Continue reading
Fans of this violent music report feelings of transcendence and positive emotions; psychologists want to learn why | Continue reading
Bottlenose dolphins simplify and raise the pitch of their whistles to be heard above underwater shipping noise. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen busts the 5 biggest myths of mindfulness | Continue reading
The workhorse orbital observatory has resumed normal science operations, NASA says | Continue reading
Global warming will compound the pressures driving migrants from poor, fragile countries | Continue reading
A recent experiment may have placed living organisms in a state of quantum entanglement | Continue reading
Little-studied ethnic groups are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived on the continent tens of thousands of years ago | Continue reading
Results from a dog trial may help push new Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy toward human trials | Continue reading
Officials will vote to overhaul the SI system of measurements, basing units such as the kilogram not on physical objects but on fundamental constants | Continue reading
Where financial disparities are greatest, the murder rate tends to be high | Continue reading
Companies claim e-cigarettes can deliver nutrients, but experts say the science looks shaky | Continue reading
How high economic inequality negatively impacts nearly every aspect of human well-being—as well as the health of the biosphere | Continue reading
The warming power of the sun could help to explain why the level of gas in the atmosphere changes with the seasons | Continue reading
Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity | Continue reading
Explosives experts use a combination of x-ray scans, chemical swabs and other tools to evaluate the parcel | Continue reading
The region has lagged on transitioning away from coal, but natural gas and renewables are gaining ground | Continue reading
As BepiColombo heads to long-neglected Mercury, a look at which planets attract scientific missions, and why | Continue reading
In search of answers, a neurobiologist looks to rodents | Continue reading
Brain changes, visible on scans, are also associated with Alzheimer’s precursors | Continue reading
A lack of data and guidelines is leaving consumers in the dark about virtual reality's potential negative side effects for kids | Continue reading
Birds such as the Arctic tern used magnetic particles and eye pigments to navigate. | Continue reading
Astrophysicist and equality advocate Jocelyn Bell Burnell will discuss her landmark discovery of pulsars during a live webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time | Continue reading
Scientists are seeking—and not finding—thermal evidence for geysers on the Jovian moon | Continue reading
A new report from the National Academics calls for concerted research into “negative emissions technologies” | Continue reading
Xofluza is the first drug with a new mechanism of action to be approved in nearly 20 years | Continue reading
Brain changes, visible on scans, are also associated with Alzheimer’s precursors | Continue reading
Meet the new weed on the block, perhaps one better suited to medical rather than recreational use | Continue reading
More than two million internet respondents pondered dilemmas to consider in letting vehicles make moral choices | Continue reading
Grants will focus on education around sea level rise, water quality, and air pollution | Continue reading
Director Robert Redfield declined to comment directly on the policy, which would define someone’s sex at birth | Continue reading
Paying attention to how algorithmic systems impact marginalized people worldwide is key to a just and equitable future | Continue reading
The U.S. Congress has not protected health or the environment. Time to make it step up | Continue reading
Suspicions humans are consuming tiny plastic particles have been confirmed, spurring future work into the possible health impacts | Continue reading
The famed orbital observatory has recovered from a glitch that suspended its operations earlier this month | Continue reading
The geology governing “sequence” quakes suggests scientists could, in theory, forecast the follow-up quakes | Continue reading
The proposed changes would create costs savings for fossil fuel companies while increasing methane emissions | Continue reading
Research demonstrates the power of “cultural brokers” | Continue reading
Take a ride with Tesla’s Enhanced Autopilot feature | Continue reading
Power imbalances facilitate environmental degradation—and the poor suffer the consequences | Continue reading