A total solar eclipse is less than one week away, and Scientific American is going to be on the ground in Spain and Iceland ...

On Wednesday the U.S. Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz to head the U.S.. Her confirmation gives the nation’s top public health ...

Musk outlined his vision to investors after SpaceX posted a $542-million loss from its space launch sector in its first ...

It’s no secret that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred: most of the world’s population today has around 1 or 2 percent ...

To find the gene, scientists sequenced the coding DNA of more than a million people across three continents to scour for ...

Mountain lions (also known as cougars or pumas) make roads safer by scaring deer and elk that can cause collisions with cars ...

Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more ...

An errant piece of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon, and astronomers are eagerly awaiting the chance to ...

This marks only the second ice age amphibian found in North America—and it gives researchers vital information abot the ...

This billionaire-backed fund is dedicating $200 million to preserve animals and even plants that are facing extinction around ...

Now scientists are turning to more unorthodox approaches, including psilocybin therapy. “Psilocybin therapy has the potential ...

Charles Darwin predicted in 1875 that some members of the Saxifraga genus could be carnivorous—now scientists have finally ...