Trump’s HHS and NIH are planning to invest $500 million in a killed-whole-virus approach to universal vaccines, including ...

AI systems could show signs of consciousness. We need to develop better tests to show whether they are actually aware ...

A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

President Trump is the first president in at least three decades to deny governors’ requests for funding that’s meant to ...

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

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the ...

In response to a power outage in Spain and Portugal, the U.S. Department of Energy’s secretary Chris Wright tried to blame ...

A new study is fueling speculation and fear about the risks of a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, including ...

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

A vaccine that blocks infection with the human papillomavirus has helped to lower cervical cancer rates. Researchers want to ...

President Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, ...