West Coast states are forming their own vaccine compact as Florida announces plans to ditch shot requirements for ...

Xuhai “Orson” Xu is an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. He studies human-computer ...

Liz Seegert is an independent health journalist based in New York's Hudson Valley. Subscribe to Scientific American to learn ...

Emiliana Simon-Thomas is science director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She ...

Darwin A. Guevarra is an assistant professor of psychology at Miami University. He studies affective processes, such as ...

Spouses often share psychiatric diagnoses, according to an analysis of almost 15 million people in three countries ...

A map of DNA methylation changes in human organs—from the stomach to the retinas—could help researchers discover more targets ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly understood ...

A cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut signal loss and make long-distance ...

"The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’", "The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own ...

As AI grows more fluent in mimicking human empathy, language and memory, we’re left asking: If a machine can fake awareness so well, what exactly is the real thing?

Knot theory is a branch of topology that has surprisingly practical applications, such as understanding how proteins coil DNA and how molecular structures remain stable. The theory’s central question: ...