Her Deepness. The Sturgeon General. And now: Glamour Girl. On Monday night, renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle earned a new moniker when she joined eight others in receiving a 2014 Glamour Woman of the Year Award at a celebrity-packed Carnegie Hall...
Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine
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President Barack Obama on Friday will announce a $3 billion U.S. contribution to the green climate fund, an international effort to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, according to an administration official...
In a win for the Obama administration on insurance coverage for contraception under Obamacare, a U.S
For a professional blowhard, there is no worse fate than being ignored. So I’m always—well, almost always—delighted when my posts get pushback, especially from people who are smart, well-informed and thoughtful...
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 14, 1914 The tactical use of artillery had been evolving in the years before the Great War: In South Africa in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 the British developed the concept of the "creeping barrage," where a curtain of shellfire proceeded just in front [...]..
The mechanism for replacing this post, created three years ago to provide independent scientific advice to the president of the European Commission, remains unclear
The International Energy Agency's latest outlook shows that despite growth in clean energy, fossil fuel trends remain dire for any hope to combat climate change
The island of Madagascar is home to a pretty amazing and diverse collection of geckos, with nearly 70 species from 10 different genera. Now you can add one more species to the list: Paroedura hordiesi, a highly camouflaged nocturnal gecko that was recently discovered in northern Madagascar...
The new U.S.-China deal to address climate change will face political problems
Research into depression has struggled whereas studies of cancer have thrived. The balance could be shifting
Legislation to approve the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline began racing through the U.S.
The two nations have made a pledge that could signify a historic breakthrough in international efforts to slow climate change, although it remains to be seen if their commitments are realistic...
A turning point has been reached in the world's bid to curb global warming
How’s this for irony?: A newly discovered plant named after the reserve in which it is supposedly found is endangered because the reserve isn’t actually located where people thought it was...
In the near future access to information and new technology may make profits and privacy obsolete, and force us to redefine the boundaries between humanity and machines
I’ve been mentioning R&D in talks and articles a lot lately. Most audiences outside the beltway don’t immediately know I mean Research and Development – until I explain it’s the part of our federal budget accounting for a good deal of “science stuff.” R&D supports basic research and leads to new innovation while helping boost [...]..
Misguided quarantines are making American health care workers wary of volunteering to treat Ebola patients, hindering efforts to provide critically needed care in west Africa
U.S. and Chinese presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping signed a deal that will cut greenhouse gases and pledged to work together toward a global deal in 2015
Authorities quarantined dozens of people at the home of a 25-year-old nurse who died from Ebola in the capital, Bamako, and at the clinic where he treated an imam from Guinea who died with Ebola-like symptoms...
