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After more than a decade of development, NASA’s new moon rocket will finally attempt to shed the shackles of Earth’s...

A sweltering mid-June day with temperatures topping 100 degrees spurred one of the largest livestock die-offs in recent Kansas history,...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. After an exhausting day at the office, it’s hard...

Lori Garver, NASA’s former deputy administrator, is famously opposed to reinventing the wheel. NASA, she has written, wasn’t created to...

Long COVID—the constellation of symptoms that can persist long after an initial coronavirus infection—has been a source of fear among...

The discovery of poliovirus in New York state, London and Jerusalem this year has taken many by surprise — but...

Thanks to COVID vaccines, more people were immunized in 2021 than in any other year in history. Yet that same...

Astyanax mexicanus cave fish have adapted to an incredibly tough environment: chilly, pitch-dark caves that flood about once a year,...

The blades of a wind turbine are typically designed to be replaced about every 20 years. This means that, as...

This podcast was produced for The Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board...