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Hydrogen could help make flying greener, but switching away from fossil fuels poses some hefty challenges

Requiring FDA approval for laboratory developed tests would be an overreaction to the Theranos debacle and would ultimately harm patients

The environment shapes stereotypes and biases, but it is possible to recognize and change them

Lobbyists’ and politicians’ campaigns against lab-grown meat appeal to emotion, not logic and reason

Gas stoves spew nitrogen dioxide at levels that frequently exceed those that are deemed safe by health organizations

The way we think about time, aging and sickness may influence our health, behavior and general well-being in surprising ways

“We should not make it harder for people to access abortion,” says a researcher who has studied the impacts on people who seek the procedure and are denied

A multimillion-dollar digital camera could revolutionize astronomy. But first it needs to climb a mountain halfway around the globe

Superstitions linger into the modern era, in part, because they may be holdovers from a time when they provided a measure of protection from predators and other mortal dangers

You can thank yeast and bacteria cultivated over generations for the distinctive taste and smell of the oldest leavened bread in history

Black Americans face higher hurdles in diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia for people under 60

The solar system’s outer limits aren’t as clear-cut as you might think

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The hit sci-fi show’s adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of scientists and their technologies

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks

Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, and its development follows a clear pattern

Scientific American asked experts whether sleeping on a hard surface is actually beneficial for back pain

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like those over the conflict in Gaza, and makes them grow