A University of Arizona optics professor has been honored by a national group for an invention that is helping the nearly ...

A common antidepressant is “unexpectedly effective” against aggressive brain tumours, scientists have found. Vortioxetine is ...

For nearly 30 years, scientists have theorized that such a vortex should be possible within the realm of electromagnetism. In 1996, R.W. Hellwarth and P. Nouchi theorized that “focused doughnuts” of ...

The only other known case of rabies in a sea mammal was in a ringed seal in Norway's Svalbard islands in the early 1980s.

The only other known case of rabies in a sea mammal was in a ringed seal in Norway's Svalbard islands in the early 1980s.

Here’s what members of the New Scientist editorial team are keenest to catch at the world’s greatest festival of ideas and discovery, which runs from 12 to 13 October ...

When studying the spread of cancer or the behavior of a virus like the one that causes COVID-19, the irony is that working ...

W hen the actor Christopher Reeve, who’d been gravely injured in a horse-riding accident in 1995, died in 2004, Democrats wasted no time turning the actor’s paralysis into a political talking point.

Failing to do so, the researchers add ... and a co-coordinator of the Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. It was co-authored by experts in marine biology, sustainability, ...

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...

What Scientific American is doing is a disgrace. When the last shreds of its credibility disappear and its readership inevitably declines, it will have only itself to blame.