Author: Scientific American

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia alone often fall through the cracks

In her book Wonder Drug, Jennifer Vanderbes explores the history of thalidomide’s secret history—and harms—in the U.S.

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 million years, a new study suggests

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

As tensions soar in the Middle East, the president’s lame duck status hinders efforts to manage the escalation of risks in the region

Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally

Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter