Scientific American

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at a subduction zone. Such places are capable of producing the largest earthquakes possible

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new?

This experimental plane, which reached supersonic speeds yesterday, is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating bothersome sonic booms

This earthquake may be among the biggest in the Gulf of Mexico’s history

When asteroids slam into Earth, they can create hydrothermal vent systems

On Sunday Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the cooling inner garment that NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear under their space suits on the moon

Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

Start your morning with today’s Spellements. Create as many words as you can from our daily selection of letters—including one tied to recent science news. Play now.

The maker of Claude wants AI labs, including itself, to prepare for a coordinated slowdown if models begin building their own successors

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

Smog from wildfires is getting worse across much of the U.S., according to a NASA-funded study

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s

A new wave of research links GLP-1 drugs to reduced cancer spread and better survival, and the mechanism may go beyond just weight loss

World Cup crowds spark outbreak tracking as AI tensions rise and ancient Rome’s roads get a stunning reboot

In a new study, an AI tool identified images of seahorse, shark fin and sea cucumber samples in luggage

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

Online prediction markets are taking bets on everything from climate change to quantum computing. But researchers question their accuracy

Like astronauts’ “overview effect,” a dramatic feeling of awe takes hold on extended seafloor stays

The company says Mythos is too dangerous to release publicly. Cybersecurity experts agree the model's capabilities matter, but not all of them are buying the most alarming claims

NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and to prepare for potential evacuation of the International Space Station. But the crew returned to normal operations shortly afterward

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

The FDA’s ongoing review of mifepristone could skip over established science, health experts warn

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes

AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

A physician involved in the long push to change the name PCOS to PMOS takes us behind the scenes of this subtle yet consequential change

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their strategies include cheating