A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, ...

Martin L. Olsson is a professor of transfusion medicine at Lund University and medical director of the Nordic Reference Laboratory for Blood Group Genomics at Region Skåne in Lund, Sweden.

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated aging, but education seems to slow the process ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

In a routine blood test that turned extraordinary, French scientists have identified the world’s newest and rarest blood group. The sole known carrier is a woman from Guadeloupe whose blood is so ...