General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to ...

The FDA is reportedly considering the addition of high-level warning labels to COVID vaccines, a move that some experts say ...

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Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs ...

Emma R. Hasson is Scientific American’s Games ace and a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the City University of New York ...

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the ...

A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, ...

The U.S. is considering allowing bemotrizinol, a highly effective UV filter used throughout Europe and Asia, in its sunscreen ...

Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition ...