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AI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about dangerous heat waves

This planet triggers flares on its star—spelling its ultimate doom

Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts

Dolphins seem to “feel” their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonar

AI can allow engineers to focus on artistry over technical details for drone shows

Here's a collection of exclusive book recommendations, from slithering snakes to a river's impact, for your summer reading lists, curated by Scientific American

Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on Monday, along with the official government website that houses them

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But the war in Ukraine is making that help increasingly hard to find

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems

Astronomers have never had this much data available this quickly before

During the summer, kids can forget some of what they learned during the school year. They recover quickly, but here are some tips to stem the slide