Scientific American

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the geological reason why

The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star

Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions about why people forget their earliest years

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park