On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno swept eastward across t ...

That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, easily accessible for Maryland residents and visitors to the DC metro area. Admission is ...

This owl will become the first specimen of its kind found in New Brunswick to be held at a Canadian museum in over 100 years, according to Greg Jongsma, the museum's acting curator of the zoology ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A reexamination of fossils found in Mongolia has revealed a previously unknown “missing link” species that led to dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex.

We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at games@sciam.com to share your experience. Gayoung Lee is Scientific American’s current news intern. A philosopher turned journalist, originally from ...

Solve the grid in this hard Sudoku puzzle! The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. A conflict arises if you repeat any entry in ...

If Mr. Trump wants to make all of America great again, he shouldn’t cut funding for scientific research. He should increase it. According to a recent report, over the past decade, N.I.H ...

NIH is the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and has long enjoyed bipartisan support from U.S. lawmakers. The Trump administration has proposed cutting $18 billion, or 40% ...