Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon ...

Hundreds of people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many ...

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The FDA says you should not eat, sell or serve recalled eggs. You should also clean and sanitize anything the eggs have ...

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...

After a quiet summer, bird flu cases are rising again. Scientists expected the development, but what happens next is still ...

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

Oxytocin is often thought of as a "love drug," and is linked with all kinds of feel-good emotions in people such as trust, empathy and generosity. Increasingly, however, scientists are finding that ...

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories ...