Ever wondered why winter mornings are so foggy? Science explains how cold air, moisture, and calm winds combine to turn water ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

How to support robust science reporting — plus, ISRO and NASA launch a satellite to map Earth, and glowing nanoparticles target cancer with precision. How to ...

Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, ...

Left to right: Jace Kuske, Sabrina Mederos, and John Paulus from the Bales Lab viewing brains on a microscope slide to study the biology behind love (called "pair bonding" in non-human animals). (Evan ...

I’m not a scientist, I’m a marketer. And I’m going to tell you something that sounds odd: The scientist and the marketer need each other. In fact, all of society needs these two types of people to ...

Information science is the study of the relationships between people, places and technology and how they are intertwined. Graduates in Information Science can pursue diverse careers such as data ...

It's easy to lose sight of this among lights, carols and presents, but Christmas actually celebrates a birthday. In Luke 1, an angel visited Mary to inform her that she has "found favor with God. You ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Two years ago, during ...

Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political leaders failed to support what scientists knew to be effective prevention measures. Over the course of the pandemic, people died from COVID-19 ...