Winding clocks an hour back this fall, when daylight saving time ends for the year across much of the U.S., might do more ...

A report finds that death rates from cancer and heart disease have declined since 2010 in roughly 150 countries. Experts ...

The start of the workweek can be a biologically measurable stressor, with consequences for long-term health that can stretch ...

Octopuses’ response to a human illusion suggests a sense of body ownership ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, ...

A child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal brain disorder that develops years after a measles ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

The public can submit names to travel along with four astronauts on an orbital journey to the moon next year The Artemis I ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as ...

Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its ...