Jenna Ahart is a science journalist specializing in the physical sciences. A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...

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A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase ...

Texas has identified more than $50 billion in flood control needs, but lawmakers have devoted just $1.4 billion to address ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

A few weeks ago, while comparing language proficiency in essays written by ChatGPT with that in essays by human authors, I ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

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 ...

Flash floods happen when heavy rains unleash more water than the ground can absorb, causing that water to pile up and flow to ...

Babies lacking in key gut bacteria are at greater risk of developing asthma, allergies or eczema Dirty diapers are more than ...

Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service, satellite ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...