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Long before Spotify and YouTube were even a thing and downloading MP3s was still cool, Winamp was the preferred media player for over 60 million people. Feature-rich yet lightweight, it’s...

(Lucas Jackson / Reuters) Andrew Cuomo can relax. President Trump’s theatrical threat to defund New York and other jurisdictions wracked by rioting isn’t going to amount to much. In the...

Editor’s Note (9/4/20): The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just alerted states to prepare for a novel coronavirus vaccine as early as November. In this story, Scientific American...

Coronavirus vaccine research has advanced at rapid speed, providing promising early results that suggest such drugs could provide immunity and protection against severe illness. However, recent COVID-19 vaccine controversies may...

September 6, 2020 | 1:38pm Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has joined onetime foe Joe Biden’s White House transition team, which would oversee the transfer of power if the...

Among the various inaccurate things my father told me about American politics was the truism that presidential campaigns began on Labor Day. If only, right? In our near-psychotic media dystopia,...

WASHINGTON — As a senator and vice president, Joe Biden — like politicians from both parties and presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan — embraced the idea that the U.S....

Win McNamee / Getty Images Donald Trump dislikes Barack Obama so much that he once filmed a video in which he berated and then ‘fired’ an actor hired to impersonate...

In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next medical use should be narrowly restricted to prospective parents who...

Editor's take: It’s a neat parlor trick, for sure, but one has to think that the novelty of it would quickly wear off. What’s more, most people I know still...