Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong ...

They worked. That is perhaps the strongest argument for defending them and handing them unharmed to our children and to American children yet unborn.” The idea of a national renewal proliferated far ...

ST. LOUIS --Enterprise, the National Hockey League (NHL®) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) today announced a multiyear extension of their North American partnership. An NHL ...

Inside View: WSJ columnist Andy Kessler would rather be subjected to Jimmy Kimmel than protected from him by government. Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You might know Chris Hadfield as the International Space Station commander who famously sang David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” ...

Federal agencies are stirring up anxiety over pregnancy meds—with the FDA questioning antidepressant safety and HHS linking Tylenol to autism. But a leading reproductive psychiatrist says this ...

Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Chiles v. Salazar, which challenges Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, a discredited and often harmful practice of attempting to change ...

Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...

Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. First, ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...