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Asian hornets buzz at a unique frequency that could be the key to controlling their spread, scientists have found, as the invasive species experiences a record…

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps…

After a Danish zoo posted a reminder of its long-running programme allowing people to donate their healthy, small pets to be “gently euthanised” and fed to…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois spent 22 years forecasting the weather on television before winning his congressional…

Organisers of an international research conference have criticised a last-minute Australian government decision to deny visas to eight invited researchers, mostly from Asia and Africa.Prof Justin…

This Mushroom’s Incredibly Bitter Taste Is New to ScienceThe first analysis of mushroom bitterness reveals ultrapotent compoundsBy K. R. Callaway edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Alexander…

James “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was…

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging…

They are supposed to monitor you throughout the working day and help make sure that life is not getting on top of you.But a study has…

Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened…