Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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David Thompson is a professor in the department of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University and in the School of ...

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Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely ...

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Evidence shows that Medicaid improves people’s health and is particularly vital for babies, older people in need of long-term ...

Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the ...

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

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

By April 12, 2024—three days before the deadline for filing tax returns in the U.S.—more than a quarter of American taxpayers had yet to do so. Procrastination—delaying something despite an ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...