Scientific American

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the geological reason why

The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star

Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions about why people forget their earliest years

A team of archaeologists excavating the ancient Maya city of Caracol discovered the tomb of its first ruler, which contained pottery, jadeite jewelry and a rare death mask

Russia’s earthquake was estimated at magnitude 8.8, among the strongest since scientists began monitoring

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park