Scientific American

A new U.N. program highlights the disconnect between climate messaging and the growing possibility of overshooting a key global warming threshold

Inexpensive Chinese solar panels are pitting Americans who want cheap equipment against those who want to make it

H5N1 influenza virus particles have been detected in commercially sold milk, but it’s not clear how the virus is spreading in cattle or whether their milk could infect humans

Research suggests that people tend to exaggerate how critically they will be viewed if they reveal negative information about themselves to others

Processed foods have been blamed for many health problems, but dietary research is tricky and nuanced

Here’s what a chef, a vet and two anthropologists have to say about eating periodical cicadas

Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses

Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.

In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day

The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector