Scientific American

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

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

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

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

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

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

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

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

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

Physicists are searching for what lies underneath the particles we know

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

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

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

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

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

The case for not filling up every minute of your day

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

The latest gravitational-wave discoveries include record-breaking cataclysms

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

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

After decades of hype, directed-energy weapons may offer the U.S. military a cheaper answer to the expensive problem of stopping drones

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

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

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

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

Hang a painting poorly in this math puzzle

The biggest questions in science inspire us even when we lack answers