This occurred about 40 years ago. And it’s been almost 20 years since the National Academy of Sciences suggested that a ...

She embodied something that feels rare in our modern world: the simple act of treating others — human or animal — with ...

Acclaimed chimpanzee expert and conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, who revolutionised the world’s understanding of animal ...

The death of the pioneering primatologist, one of the most influential voices in environmental science, has prompted tributes ...

Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favourite sci-fi writers. So I am really excited about a collection out this month that brings together the maps she would draw when starting ...

A female science teacher has apologized after students complained when she fed a live kitten to a snake in the classroom. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a blistering ...

At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, is set in Great Britain in the 22nd century – a country now partly ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

South Dakota State University’s animal science program became the first to become accredited in the nation in July, during the annual American Society of Animal Science meeting in Hollywood, Florida.

Gretchen T. Goldman is the president and chief executive of the Union of Concerned Scientists, based in Washington DC. The scientific community needs to recognize these trends and fight back in every ...

Outrage and online conspiracy theories spread after a book about Charlie Kirk’s assassination was listed for sale on Amazon. On Wednesday, social media users shared images of a book available on ...