The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

Chris Rocheleau, Trump’s pick for acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been a longtime agency official and ...

The nonaddictive painkiller suzetrigine (Journavx) is as effective for acute pain as a common opioid treatment ...

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...

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 ...

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From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways his nomination for head of the Department of ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds.