America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed ...

The U.S. will need more than one million STEM workers in the next 10 years to stay competitive. Immigrants are critical to ...

Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Letters to the editors for the November 2024 issue of Scientific American ...

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Science in meter and verse ...

Craske and her colleagues hypothesized that targeting this mechanism for reward sensitivity could help strengthen affected ...

Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...

Norovirus infection rates are extremely high this year, raising the question: Why can’t a vaccine protect us from the stomach ...