The common pain reliever is safe when used as directed, research shows. But scientists remain puzzled by one aspect: how it ...

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our ...

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

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 ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles 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 ...

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 ...

Suzette Brewer is a writer and producer specializing in federal Indian law and Indigenous issues. A member of the Cherokee ...

Emily Bazar is a journalist and editor who focuses on health and health policy. Previously, she was a senior correspondent ...