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A referee checks the video assistant referee screen during a soccer match.

MathematicsJune 13, 2026

World Cup camera coverage poses a moving math puzzle

Mathematicians have considered how to watch every corner of a space—but soccer adds moving players, blocked views and constant action

Manon Bischoff

A sleek white plane speeds ahead in a blue sky.

EngineeringJune 12, 2026

NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone

Claire Cameron

Whisky pouring from a bottle into a cut glass tumbler on a wooden table

Public HealthJune 12, 2026

Former U.S. health official explains why the Trump administration ‘ignored’ a key alcohol study

Claire Cameron

Optic nerve fibres in red.

CellsJune 13, 2026

World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person

Heidi Ledford, Nature magazine

Graphic shows a light yellow square divided into eight rectangles that have varying dimensions but equal areas. One of the rectangles is highlighted in a darker yellow and one of its shorter sides is labeled with the number eight.

GamesJune 13, 2026

Math Puzzle: Go to great lengths

Heinrich Hemme

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Photo of a Tomahawk missile being launched from a carrier in the ocean

DefenseJune 13, 2026

Tungsten crunch rekindles U.S. mining ambitions

Ari Sen

Landscape showing permafrost under the layer of soil

Climate ChangeJune 12, 2026

Earth’s permafrost could soon release hidden ‘deep carbon,’ supercharging warming

Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Four book covers floating in space, including Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet, Contact and The Dispossessed

Book RecommendationsJune 12, 2026

The alien stories Scientific American editors keep coming back to

Brianne Kane

Clad in business attire, Elon Musk sits in front of a digital screen displaying abstract art.

Space ExplorationJune 12, 2026

SpaceX’s historic IPO ignites the new space race

Jonathan O'Callaghan

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June 2026 Issue

A chandelier-shaped cooling system for the quantum computer IBM Quantum System Two.

Quantum Physics

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

Adam Becker

An illustration of green computer chips and purple spheres representing quantum bits seem to fly out from a central point of light.

Quantum Computing

What’s a quantum computer good for, anyway?

Zeeya Merali

A stretch of the Via Appia showing the straight construction and stone paving associated with classic Roman roads

Archaeology

New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire

Tom Brughmans

An orange and red cross-hatched gradient forms a four-lobed shape over a vast coordinate plane. Along the “x-axis” at the center is a black blob, shaped like a horizontal tear-drop.

Mathematics

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

Joseph Howlett

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket launches on a fiery pillar of exhaust surrounded by billowing clouds, sending the Orion crew capsule of the space agency’s Artemis II lunar mission into orbit.

Space Exploration

NASA’s Artemis II launched on first crewed moon mission of the 21st century

Nadia Drake

A false-color view of the moon's Orientale Basin.

Planetary Science

NASA’s Artemis era may finally solve three major moon mysteries

Robin George Andrews

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Games

A robot hand reaches toward bubbles with letters in them

Spellements

Create as many words as you can!

Illustration of a hand and multiple numbers against a purple background.

Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

A robot hand unleashes a swirl of puzzle pieces, crosswords, and circles with numbers and letters

All Games

Science inspired games, puzzles and quizzes

Special Edition

An illustration of a galaxy.

Astronomy

The new story of the Milky Way’s surprisingly turbulent past

Ann Finkbeiner

Doark amorphous shape

Dark Matter

Dark matter might lurk in its own shadow world

Kathryn Zurek

Illustration of a woman at a desk and her dog living in a spacecraft.

Space Exploration

Why we'll never live in space

Sarah Scoles

Illustration of a black hole in a geometric-like universe

Black Holes

The puzzle of the first black holes

Priyamvada Natarajan

Illustration of a dragon-like creature coming to life out of a long roll of paper

Astrophysics

What if we never find dark matter?

Tracy R. Slatyer, Tim M. P. Tait

Conceptual image of the timeline of the cosmos

Cosmology

Astronomers’ epic quest to witness the cosmic dawn

Rebecca Boyle

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Podcasts

The director and cast of the movie Disclosure Day pose in front of a banner with the name of the movie for a promotional event

Disclosure Day raises a big question: How do you talk to aliens?

Rachel Feltman, Sushmita Pathak, Brianne Kane, Alex Sugiura

An image of workers installing turf on the World Cup pitch at Los Angeles Stadium

SportsJune 10, 2026

Inside the high-stakes effort to bring natural grass to World Cup stadiums

Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

An image of an aerial view of FIFA World Cup 2026 match ball installation in Vancouver

Public HealthJune 8, 2026

World Cup kicks off amid outbreak tracking as Mars mission ends and AI fights heat up

Rachel Feltman, Lauren J. Young, Andrea Gawrylewski, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

Wooden blocks with letters spell PCOS against a blurry white background

ReproductionJune 5, 2026

Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS

Rachel Feltman, Sushmita Pathak, Alex Sugiura

An image of a woman waiting for an elevator in a building

MathJune 3, 2026

How elevators, pizza and card shuffles reveal the surprising math of everyday life

Rachel Feltman, Manon Bischoff, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

Discussions

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