Author: Scientific American

Decades after FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey stopped thalidomide from going on the market in the U.S., the legacy of the drug persists

Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects

Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda

An elegant matchmaking algorithm called Gale-Shapley can find the best possible pairings for everybody

As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, people in recently storm-stricken areas grapple with the physical and mental health tolls of evacuating and seeking shelter

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions— and for creating entirely new ones that can improve health and the environment

Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is on the rise after a lull at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago

Years after a nuclear disaster wiped out Fukushima’s agriculture, peach growers are banking on Harrods to sell the area’s recovery story