Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz ...

Christine Keiner is the Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American ...

A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births ...

Fresh fruits and vegetables can often come with toxic residues from pesticides, some of which contain so-called forever ...

The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

Fresh-water-saturated sediment or bedrock may extend as deep as three or four kilometers below the Great Salt Lake’s basin, a ...

These guidelines reinforce the importance of whole grains and fruit and vegetables but clash with the government’s latest ...

For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science ...