Technology

Scientific American’s short-form podcast has been going for 16 years, three months and seven days, counting today. But it’s time for us to evolve.

Systems like ChatGPT are enormously entertaining and even mind-bogglingly human-sounding, but they are also unreliable and could create an avalanche of misinformation

A new chip re-creates the human vagina’s unique microbiome

Artificial intelligence can improve health, protect biodiversity and even write wine reviews

The world is running out of sand. Is circular thinking the solution?

A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year

How do you teach a new robot old tricks?

Dental scanners could help researchers diagnose stressed-out baby corals

A new algorithm solves the long-standing “hidden line problem” of computer graphics

In an ever warming world, the health benefits of stadium air-conditioning may not outweigh the climate risks

I’ve been working on space elevators for almost 20 years, and though we still have issues to solve, we are getting closer to making them reality

Elon Musk wants to run Twitter like SpaceX. But human behavior will make it much more difficult