The U.S. government apologized Friday for a previously unreported experiment that infected hundreds of un-consenting Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Hugh Herr has made it his mission to eliminate the word "disabled" from our vocabulary when describing people who require assistance of some sort to perform the daily tasks that most people take for granted...
Genetic traces of an ancient hepatitis B-like virus confounds common knowledge about viral evolution
Analysis of DNA from 180,000 people finds dozens of gene regions associated with height differences, and shows how researchers can analyze traits that are determined by complex genetics...
Researchers lack a standard about when to disclose unanticipated findings to study participants and their doctors, raising ethical--and financial--dilemmas
Do graphic warning labels on cigarette packages really deter people from lighting up?
The U.S. health care system needs to focus more on general care and care coordination
Technology has always defined how wars are fought, from swords to bows and arrows through the invention of gunpowder and the dawn of the aircraft and, now, to the presence of laser-guided unmanned aerial drones and bomb-diffusing robots...
Novel materials could allow the implantation of flexible, rechargeable batteries that would constantly recharge from the body's own movements--even just breathing. Cynthia Graber reports...
Award-winning science journalist Robin Marantz Henig and podcast host Steve Mirsky discuss Robin's article in the September issue about organ donation and definitions of death. Plus, we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news...
Scientists had previously suspected that the most common human malaria parasite split from a chimpanzee version millions of years ago. New genetic analysis of primate droppings points to a more recent cross-species transmission event from gorillas...
Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the October 2010 issue of Scientific American
Two favorites for a Nobel Prize this year have picked up the 2010 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award—the so-called "American Nobel"—an honor that often precedes the winning of an actual Nobel...
The 2010 Nobel Prize announcements will not begin rolling out until October 4, but the speculation about who will be lauded this year has already begun.
The earlier diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration and glaucoma—the three most prevalent diseases causing blindness—can be diagnosed, the more successfully they can be treated...
The troubled path of diet drugs continues to look challenging, especially after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended Thursday that the agency not approve a new anti-obesity medication—the second of three to come up for evaluation this year...
The U.N. has made improving maternal health a major goal for 2015, but progress has been slow despite good science on what makes motherhood safer
In a congressional hearing Thursday top-level researchers argued that government-backed research should continue to explore all stem cell varieties
A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo...
Certain kinds of physical and emotional pain share a neural pathway that responds to acetaminophen
