Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for mRNA vaccine discoveries that made highly effective COVID vaccines possible ...

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.

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One of Europe’s most common birds, the Great Tit, shows an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem to be no limits for this species when it comes to inventing new ways of ...

As least as early as Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the call of whip-poor-wills, a member of the nocturnal nightjar family, haunted American fiction. Perhaps the best ...

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Human echolocation has at times allowed people to ride bikes or play basketball despite being completely blind from a very young age. These echolocators typically perceive their environment by ...

The Justice Department has also accused RT, the Russian state media outlet, of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to American social media influencers to parrot Kremlin talking points.

US Fines American Airlines Record $50 Million Over Treatment of Disabled Passengers By David Shepardson (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday said it was fining American ...

Feltman: That’s all for today’s episode. If you want to hear more of our conversation, you can find an extended version on Scientific American’s YouTube channel—and you’ll get to see our ...