NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability ...

The universe seems stable, but an unlikely shift in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space, could ...

Peter Cummings is a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who explores what happens in the brain at the threshold between life and death. His research focuses on how the human mind and brain adapt ...

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

Heat waves are the single highest cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., where an estimated 1,300 fatalities from heat ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life ...

The House of Representatives’ first caucus to address extreme heat is being launched by a Democrat from the Southwest and a ...

Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and ...

The latest version of Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, is promoting fringe climate viewpoints in a way it hasn’t ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the House of Representatives last week, would slow efforts to green the energy ...