Scientific American

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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