Scientific American

The cat is smaller than a house cat but has the spots of a leopard

A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old

Our sun is on a long, strange trip to its eventual demise. Here are the key stops along the way

Pancreatic cancer is typically caught in its latest stages, when it is hardest to treat

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

As temperatures rise, the evidence is clear that heat is eroding students’ ability to learn

The dinosaurs were once considered reptilian, but the new results suggest we may need to rethink their evolution

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels

Physicists are searching for what lies underneath the particles we know

A high-ranking official announced yesterday that the U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit to counter threats from Russia and China

Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that’s quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which major unsolved question could be resolved next

Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity

Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017

Could the hunt for the universe’s missing matter be the biggest wild goose chase in scientific history?

A new declaration from winners of the Fields Medal reflects many mathematicians’ growing alarm over a “severe misalignment” between the tech industry and their field a week after AI toppled one of math’s biggest open problems

Science is helping to peel back the layers of how dogs process the world around them

Both the president and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have made numerous false claims about the vaccines’ efficacy and safety

Independent auditors are emerging as a key part of plans to rein in frontier AI. But the systems are evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate them

The malleability of memory once cast doubt on eyewitness identification in criminal cases, but new research reveals how eyewitness memory can be used accurately

The pages come from a copy of Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ that once belonged to John Gage, an enforcer in Henry VIII’s court and a key figure in the historical dissolution of the monasteries

The surprising real-world applications of high-dimensional sphere packing and the 48-year-old barrier that OpenAI just broke

Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped

After months of headaches and visual hallucinations, a woman was finally revealed to have brain cysts filled with tapeworm larvae

The technique opens new possibilities for investigating neurological conditions, from autism to dementia

Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable to discuss the enduring mysteries that continue to challenge science

The latest gravitational-wave discoveries include record-breaking cataclysms

Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace

Experts say free lunch for every child improves academic performance. Whether it does is murky, according to a Scientific American analysis, but there are definite financial and social benefits

Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure

Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it

An Anthropic researcher quit over fears of runaway AI. His colleague who still works there agreed. Security experts argue that the incidents that are already on record call for tighter oversight, not panic

Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of how the numbers in a sequence aren’t as clear-cut as they may first appear

A quarter of a century after the Twin Towers fell, those who lived through the attacks are still seeking care for myriad illnesses, including cancers, post-traumatic stress disorder, and more

The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began

What happens when machines surpass the most brilliant human minds? Mathematicians are finding out