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Apples on sale for a high price at a supermarket

FoodJune 1, 2026

How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Andrew Scott cocks his head and smiles. He is sitting in front of an old-timey sea map and is wearing a white shirt, a dark blue cardigan and two thin gold necklaces. The word "PRESSURE" is next to him in all capital letters.

WeatherJune 1, 2026

Andrew Scott learned all about meteorology for his latest film Pressure

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

Andrea Thompson

BooksJune 1, 2026

Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge

Fill your bingo card with fascinating science stories, discoveries and ideas all summer long for a chance to win prizes

Brianne Kane

SpacecraftJune 1, 2026

China launches rival rocket to SpaceX Falcon 9 for the first time

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

Claire Cameron

A satellite view of three hurricanes surrounding the Hawaiian islands.

WeatherJune 1, 2026

Why do hurricanes come in seasons?

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

Meghan Bartels

An image of a health worker wearing protective equipment crouching beside the coffin outside a home in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Public HealthJune 1, 2026

A new Ebola outbreak has killed hundreds—and the U.S. response is alarming experts

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

Rachel Feltman, Tanya Lewis, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

An engineer working on magnets in an open section of the Large Hadron Collider.

Particle PhysicsMay 31, 2026

These exotic particles could break physics

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

Elizabeth Gibney, Nature magazine

Entrance of The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington D.C.

Society & PolicyMay 31, 2026

Top U.S. science funder slows research grants to universities

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

Dan Garisto, Nature magazine

A 3D computer generated model of Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4.

BiotechMay 30, 2026

New protein-folding AI predicts the structures of 1 billion proteins

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

Ewen Callaway, Miryam Naddaf, Nature magazine

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 88 (M88).

GalaxiesMay 30, 2026

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster

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

Adam Kovac

A black-and-white photo of soldiers leaving a troop transport to wade into the ocean toward the beach where smoke rises

WeatherMay 29, 2026

How the success of D-Day hinged on a weather forecast

As General Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared for D-Day, he needed a forecast. The new movie Pressure shows the tense make-or-break weather prediction that led to the successful invasion of Europe that spelled the beginning of the end of World War II

Andrea Thompson

Red light fills a clean room machine used in semiconductor manufacturing, with reflective panels and mechanical parts arranged around a central platform.

ComputingMay 29, 2026

The AI boom has a memory problem

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise, Idaho–based Micron briefly top $1 trillion in market value

Ramin Skibba

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