Scientific American Magazine

Recent fossil discoveries reveal that evolution began laying the groundwork for their rise to world domination long before the dinosaur-killing asteroid cleared the playing field

Every year thousands of exploding stars appear in a bizarre assortment of forms. Astronomers want to know what makes them go boom

Artificial intelligence, once discarded as a has-been technology, is now undergoing a vigorous resurgence

After decades of disappointment, artificial intelligence is finally catching up to its early promise, thanks to a powerful technique called deep learning

They are coming, but not the way you may have been led to think

If we're not careful, we could find ourselves at odds with determined, intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own

The U.S. military is taking steps to limit the chance that worsening droughts, rising seas and melting Arctic ice will hasten uprisings that threaten national interests

New discoveries show that fishes are capable of complex mental calculus, reshaping our ideas about animal intelligence underwater

Vietnam insists that children are suffering today from the lingering effects of the infamous defoliant sprayed by U.S. forces decades ago. Scientists are undecided