Oregon State University researchers receive federal funding to explore electric technology for controlling weeds in organic ...

Editor’s Note (5/24/23): One year ago, on May 24, 2022, 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. This piece by Scientific American's editors presents ...

One clear diagnosis from this year’s corruption scandal is the lack of science in planning and designing flood control ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

Bird flu has been rampaging through wildlife and farm animals worldwide. Will it make the long-feared jump to humans?

Seven people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a Monday mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. The attack comes on the heels of several recent mass ...

There's a single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, and it can turn a normally risk-averse mouse into a bold, cat-seeking rodent. Cats that devour such mice can then pass the parasite onto ...

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that ...

As misinformation about women's health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

At 26, Miramontes synthesized an active ingredient in one of the first birth control pills Miramontes’ notebook page has been immortalized in books and articles by his former supervisor, Carl Djerassi ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...