Announcing the 2015 DiverseScholar National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Diversity Travel Fellowship. Sponsored by a generous NASW Idea Grant , these travel awards (10 at $1,000 each) were created to encourage underrepresented minorities in science journalism to attend the ScienceWriters2015 conference (October 9-13; Cambridge, MA)...
Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters...
The 39th president of the U.S. said on Wednesday that recent liver surgery revealed he had cancer that had spread to other parts of his body
Indoor climate control systems are based on 1960s standards that envisioned the typical office worker to be a 40-year-old, 68-kilogram man
Huge explosions hit an industrial area of the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and triggering a blast wave felt kilometres (miles) away, Chinese media reported...
Kenya has rejected a request to bring two young chimpanzees rescued in Ebola-hit Liberia to a Kenyan wildlife sanctuary due to fears about the deadly virus, the country's top veterinarian said on Wednesday...
As Asian agribusinesses eye new opportunities in Africa, conservationists work to protect gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys
As part of Obama's Police Data Initiative, researchers and police are studying "predictive analytics" to improve existing officer early warning systems
China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in space despite their denial of such work
A team of U.S. regulators probing contamination at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released a million gallons of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system...
A year into the Great War there was an interesting difference between the accuracy of reporting in some articles and the haze of obscurity drawn by the military censors over still-volatile events...
The only climate-related topic that came up was the Keystone XL pipeline
We need an international agreement to prevent the development of autonomous weapons before they threaten global security
After 16 years, Jon Stewart signed off from The Daily Show on August 6, but not before leaving the world a trove of humorous and pointed clips about science
The U.S. energy transition will continue under the new plan, but it needs to move even faster
Electronic health data, long touted as a way to inject new life into patient recruitment, will finally be put to the test with clinical trials
After seven decades should we be optimistic or pessimistic?
Big names in education, technology and public plicy gather at Scientific American's STEM Executive Summit to advance a bold new vision for education
The new rule includes panoply of changes to help states trade emissions
Native Hawaiian groups are protesting construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea during a gathering of scientists in Honolulu
