Former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office announced on Sunday. The 82-year-old has what ...

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Recent breakthroughs suggest that hydrogen reservoirs are buried in countless regions of the world, including at least 30 U.S. states ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be filled by humans ...

As president, Donald Trump pretty much checks all the warning boxes for an autocrat. Last September Scientific American warned of Trump’s “nonsensical conspiracy fantasies,” that he ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

And yet scientists are studying kelp not just as a casualty of climate change but as a survivor. “Diving into the kelp forest ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...