Arts

Illustration of a pear and a man painting on its stem

ArtsNovember 18, 2025

Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

Science in meter and verse

Nancy Brewka-Clark

A photograph of moveable type in which the letters are lined up without any order.

Artificial IntelligenceNovember 9, 2025

The Slop Cycle—How Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art

The popularization of the term “slop” for AI output follows a centuries-long pattern where new tools flood the zone, audiences adapt and some of tomorrow’s art emerges from today’s excess

Deni Ellis Béchard

The Young American Scientists Event—Register Now

An illustration of a woman scientist cutout portrait from a black and white historical photography in from of an image of DNA

BiologyNovember 6, 2025

An Opera Explores the Story of Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA

Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an opera

Rosie Millard, Deborah Unger, Lily Whear, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Illustration of a person's silhoutte sitting at a table with a cup of coffee, and the coffee's steam rising into space

ArtsOctober 14, 2025

Poem: ‘In Reality’

Science in meter and verse

Jennifer Maier

Close up of grey cat cat with deep blue eyes

CatsOctober 6, 2025

See Stunning Feline Photography Revealing the Science of Cats

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

Liz Tormes, Meghan Bartels

Covers of three issues of Scientific American

CultureSeptember 22, 2025

Announcing the #SciAmInTheWild Photography Contest Short List

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our staff’s favorite submissions

Sunya Bhutta, Isabella Bruni, Brianne Kane