The Europa Clipper spacecraft is only weeks away from lifting off on an epic voyage to one of the solar system’s most ...

Donald Trump all but ignored climate change at Tuesday’s presidential debate while Kamala Harris voiced support of both ...

Questing for a truly constant “tick,” scientists have zoomed in on the atomic world, where the minuscule scales and ...

Experts explain the differences between popular retinol products and the way they trigger molecular changes deep in the skin ...

Kyla Bennett is Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility’s (PEER’s) director of science policy and director of PEER’s New England and mid-Atlantic field office. She is a scientist and ...

In searching for potential dangers humans would face on a long Mars mission, scientists are leaving no stone ...

Rachel Feltman: Twenty-three years ago, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and turned Manhattan’s iconic World Trade Center into Ground Zero. Most of you probably ...

When vegetation burns, large amounts of heat are released. This heats the air near the ground, and that air rises like a hot ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

Josh Pasek is a professor of communication and media and political science, a faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies in the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and a ...

Polaris Dawn’s astronauts will travel farther from Earth than anyone since the early 1970s, and will attempt the world's ...