Science & Environment

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.There are a few animals that pretty much everyone likes: fluffy...

We can't all get down to Cape Canaveral, so we've rounded up the best model rockets on the market, suitable...

Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms are underpaying for carbon credits from...

Transcript: To get around, hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans ride a bus or the L, the city’s rapid transit system....

The basic experimental protocol employed in this study. Credit: Communications Psychology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00250-5 Most humans can recall specific events...

There are creatures here on Earth that may give us clues on getting "chat-time" with extraterrestrial intelligence — dolphins, which...

E-clinic startup CureBay in India has bagged $21 million in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investment....

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars...

Larry Saltzman has blood cancer. He’s also a retired doctor, so he knows getting covid-19 could be dangerous for him...

Surprising yet simple natural behavior is drawing fresh attention from scientists, as new findings show that spraying tiny droplets of...