
The alien stories Scientific American editors keep coming back to
The 24 alien books the Scientific American staff love, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Contact and beyond

The alien stories Scientific American editors keep coming back to
The 24 alien books the Scientific American staff love, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Contact and beyond
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
World Cup camera coverage poses a moving math puzzle
Scientists need more snapshots of shooting stars—and you can help
Cover Art Jigsaw: February 1994

Inside the race to develop a new Ebola vaccine
Tungsten crunch rekindles U.S. mining ambitions
World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person
NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment
What’s a quantum computer good for, anyway?
NASA’s Artemis era may finally solve three major moon mysteries
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

Why we'll never live in space
The puzzle of the first black holes
What if we never find dark matter?
Inside the high-stakes effort to bring natural grass to World Cup stadiums
World Cup kicks off amid outbreak tracking as Mars mission ends and AI fights heat up
Inside the multiyear effort to rename PCOS

Science confirms: Cats help you only when there’s something in it for them
Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit

World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person
The first participant has been treated in a landmark clinical trial of cellular reprogramming, which aims to rejuvenate aging cells

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science
A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

U.S. gets a new sunscreen ingredient after 27 years—here’s how it works
Dermatologists and skincare aficionados are excited for the U.S. to finally get a new, more protective sunscreen filter after more than 20 years of regulatory roadblocks. Here’s how bemotrizinol works

See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks

Can black holes send information back in time?
Extremely curved spacetime can warp cause and effect, creating channels for backward communication