Researchers have found a way to control protein levels inside different tissues of a whole, living animal for the first time. The method lets scientists dial protein levels up or down with great ...

When I, Erik Meijaard, worked as a wildlife consultant for a timber concession in Borneo, I often chatted with the logging truck drivers—and quickly realized that some of them knew far more about ...

Emily Meijaard bekerja di Borneo Futures Sdn Bhd the organization that developed the citizen science-based monitoring approach discussed in the article When I, Erik Meijaard, worked as a wildlife ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

As misinformation about women's health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

Feeling in control may be the key to conquering daily stress. Penn State researchers found that people were 62% more likely to resolve everyday hassles on days when they felt greater control. This ...

Every dish in Sichuan’s rural villages tells a story; not just of taste, but of history and survival. Here, farmers still rely on knowledge passed down through generations, blending science with ...

What Ancient Stoics and Modern Neuroscience Teach Us About Emotional Control I made my first formal court appearance as a newly sworn-in lawyer about a quarter of a century ago. I remember standing in ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. When it comes to birth control, men have exactly two reliable options: condoms or a vasectomy. That’s it. For decades ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Thursday that will give him and whomever he appoints unprecedented control over who and what projects receive what type of scientific funding ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of ...

Most of us don’t wake up dreaming about joining a clinical trial. For decades, research was something that happened to other people: the hyper-healthy, the terminally curious, folks with more time on ...