Vinay Lal is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and presently holds the Fulbright-Nehru ...

For people who grew up carefully turning pajamas inside out and backward in hopes of manifesting some flakes, snow can be a ...

Hindu nationalists are committed to turning India into a Hindu nation-state. They are rewriting history in textbooks to shape ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

One of President Trump’s first executive orders withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. These graphics show why ...

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy ...

Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO2 from the air while also increasing yields. But it ...

Lydia Millet is author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections and was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her latest book is We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (W. W. Norton, 2024).

Emily L. Casanova is an assistant professor of neuroscience in psychology at Loyola University, New Orleans. She studies autism from various perspectives.

Play this crossword inspired by the February 2024 issue of Scientific American ...

Liana Christensen is an Australian poet whose published works include Deadly Beautiful, Wild Familiars and Unnatural History. This poem was inspired by the European Chemical Society’s revised periodic ...

F. Alex Feltus is a professor of genetics and biochemistry at Clemson University. He studies the genomic mechanisms underlying observable traits.