
Inside the labs where chemists engineer luxury perfumes
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory

Inside the labs where chemists engineer luxury perfumes
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory
Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move
10 best dinosaur books, according to a paleontologist
Math Puzzle: The arrow of time

Did AI just solve the mystery of one of El Greco’s most enigmatic paintings?
Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults
What’s the weirdest planet in the solar system?
What is Mythos, Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, and how worried should we be?

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

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

Behold! This is the largest, sharpest 3D map of the universe yet
A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most extensive surveys of our universe ever conducted

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

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

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

Mathematicians created an ‘impossible’ shape that shouldn’t exist
Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape