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As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

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A bill to repeal the ban on supersonic flights over the U.S. could increase the demand for the gas-guzzling jets from around ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...