The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

She tells Scientific American that her entire branch was shut down. As a young researcher, she chose government science because the work she would do would benefit everyone. “Workers are going ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Research suggests that anywhere from roughly a quarter to more than a third of people with a vagina will contract ...

The high-resolution 3D map contains more than 200,000 brain cells, around 82,000 of which are neurons. It also includes more than 500 million of the neuronal connection points called synapses and ...

Today, the global language of scientific publications is English. The reason for the ascendancy of American research universities is a simple one — brain drain from Europe. After World War I ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. “Avoid screens before bed” is one of the most common pieces of sleep ...

“Trump’s attempt to bail out coal is a recipe for raising prices for consumers,” said Jenny Rowland-Shea, public lands director at the Center for American Progress. “Coal’s decline was a ...

With a reasonable definition of cell type — although probably not a final one — in hand, the team turned to the core mission of connectomics: to map the connections between cells. Towards this ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture ...

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