Author: Scientific American

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

Downpours from hurricanes are worsening—and leaving even “climate havens” vulnerable.

Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of Marburg virus disease to reduce the risk of wider spread

A 2013 report from the World Bank placed the Tampa Bay area seventh on a list of the top 10 global cities facing the costliest damage from coastal floods

Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft

Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ