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Science and politics can make awkward bedfellows, with the very question of whether it is possible to make purely objective observations about the world drawing forth…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In case you missed it we’re spending this week revisiting some of our favorite episodes from…

Thousands of miles of ancient riverbeds have been discovered in the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars, suggesting the red planet was once a far wetter…

Japan Wires the Ocean with an Earthquake-Sensing ‘Nervous System’Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge…

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.According to documents obtained by Politico, most…

CLIMATEWIRE | Texas knows it isn’t prepared for floods.But the state has done little to address the risk — and the federal government under President Donald…

The actor recently posted a photo of himself undergoing a £10,000 procedure at a London clinic that claims to remove microplastics, forever chemicals and herbicides from…

My preschooler is obsessed with rules—and, more importantly, exploring their loopholes. When I tell him to stop throwing rocks, he will drop a rock dramatically with…

The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows.The…

Massive Study Flips Our Story of Addiction and the BrainBrain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their…