Scientific American

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

No, fermenting garlic in honey is not a replacement for antibiotic or antiviral meds

Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now an AI has apparently answered it

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

Environmental advocates have decried the move

If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say

Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island have seen hints of a phase transition from the early universe

The world’s largest rocket successfully entered orbit for the first time—a milestone for SpaceX and a relief for future NASA moon missions

Lasting from mid-September until mid-November, the Taurid meteor showers are among the longest of the year

Meet the Milky Way’s first microblazar

From the smallest building blocks of life to prehistoric vomit and a newly discovered amoeba that can really take the heat.

Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been answered

To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way

After transplant, young hearts in both mice and humans showed signs of accelerated aging in older bodies, while older hearts in younger bodies seemed rejuvenated

Hawaii has never had three hurricanes come within 50 miles in the same year

A new study found that one in four professional football players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—a degenerative brain disease—but what about children who play these sports?

The beloved game arose out of the opposing forces of the U.S. and the Soviet Union

The former vice president thinks this year is when we’ll get serious about climate change

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

In 1872, New York’s devastating epizootic gave the ASPCA’s young founder a powerful moral argument for animal protection

In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of one “inverse Galois problem”

Antibodies made by the immune system can sometimes target human brain cells, producing psychiatric symptoms. Researchers aim to better identify such rare cases as well as fine-tune treatments.

What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?

The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by low-quality studies

Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired

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

Is it possible to optimize our poop?

The virus is currently most prevalent in California and the southern U.S., but experts expect it to go national in the coming weeks

The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge

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

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to

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

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

In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test

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

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

Diesel prices have almost doubled over the past year, spelling trouble for farmers, truckers and the entire U.S. economy

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de force, but any real-world applications may be years away—if they ever arrive at all

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the universe for signs of dark matter and energy

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake

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