
How a lost 1812 wristwatch sparked a 200-year race in precision engineering
Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters

How a lost 1812 wristwatch sparked a 200-year race in precision engineering
Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters
How a Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
Why game theory could be critical in a nuclear war
Chronic pain is not just in your head, but it is in your brain
Cover Art Jigsaw: February 1947

Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations
Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move
Did AI just solve the mystery of one of El Greco’s most enigmatic paintings?

The hidden cause of heart disease is inflammation
How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics
Space hotels are coming soon
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

Can peanut allergies be cured?
How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
These cancers were beyond treatment—but might not be anymore
The fans who went from collecting Pokémon to studying bugs and fossils
Artemis proves NASA can return to the moon. Now comes the hard question: Why?
Alexis Hall talks space whales, AI and reinventing a classic
Experts warn that communities underestimate measles’ danger

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults
A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations
For decades, the mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

What is Mythos, Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, and how worried should we be?
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

DARPA’s AI is built to call BS on wild weapons claims
The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart

Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

What’s this fast-moving wave of darkness creeping across Mars?
Observations by the Mars Express orbiter reveal rapid changes on the Red Planet’s surface from windblown volcanic ash