Scientific American

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are calling it “Phoebe”

Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

A new investigation alleges that official organizations in Tanzania have imperiled the country's artifacts and remains at four critical human heritage sites they were supposed to protect

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their strategies include cheating

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s

Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now

A breeze is emanating from Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

A physician involved in the long push to change the name PCOS to PMOS takes us behind the scenes of this subtle yet consequential change

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

Coal is the most significant fossil fuel contributor to climate change

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

Remote and hybrid work can have benefits, but a study involving more than 588,000 people suggest they may take a serious mental toll

Even though astronomers didn’t detect alien tech signals from a rare interstellar visitor, the results are worthwhile, they say

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

The past year has been “filled with turmoil” for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began