One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent ...

A recent analysis showed the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew from 2022 to 2024. Experts say this could lead to ...

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned for feeding; they also allow males to joust ...

The U.S.’s and Denmark’s health systems are starkly different, so it makes sense that their vaccination schedules would ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most fascinating magazine covers over the years. Take a tour here through the covers so ...

Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to ...

The FDA is reportedly considering the addition of high-level warning labels to COVID vaccines, a move that some experts say ...

An oil tanker seized by the U.S. this week reportedly used a technique that scrambled its location, but new advanced visual ...

Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs ...