A newly established alliance, comprising leading researchers and conservation experts, has mobilized to safeguard the Atlantic Ocean's leatherback turtle populations. The Wilkes Atlantic Leatherback Turtle Alliance is led by the University of Exeter, with more than 50 partner
While Reno families were celebrating the 1997 New Year, the Truckee River was surging into the city's downtown streets. A rainstorm was falling on the Sierra Nevada's deep snowpack, melting it rapidly and creating a hazardous situation for downstream communities.
As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to fall, new research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania finds that jury service is associated with more positive attitudes toward courts and judges—but that Americans'
Writing with AI can look deceptively simple. Effortless, even. Type in a prompt and a polished paragraph appears in seconds. Tidy, confident, clean. But that apparent ease is also deceiving, says Abram Anders, associate professor of English and the Jonathan Wickert Professor of
Astronomers have detected one of the most powerful ultra-fast outflows ever seen from a distant supermassive black hole. Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, a team studied a hyper-luminous quasar at cosmic noon and found two distinct wind components blasting away from the black hole,
Find the lengths of the sides of the square in this math puzzle
It was something infectious disease expert Heather Ferguson never expected to see in her lifetime: a mosquito-borne virus originally from Africa spreading in Scotland.
The Department of Energy bills Genesis as an AI push for scientific discovery. Its first public challenges tell a different story
Play this crossword inspired by the July/August 2026 issue of Scientific American
Letters to the editors for the March 2026 issue of Scientific American
A meditation on life and the von Neumann–Wigner interpretation of quantum mechanics
Natural fission reactor uncovered; geometry of soap bubbles
In his final interview, the “swashbuckling” geneticist pointed the way for science
These young scientists are making waves in their own ways. Keep an eye on them—great things are ahead
It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
The great American brain drain could define science for a generation
Despite funding woes, American scientists are finding reasons for optimism
Scientists are seen as oddballs, and that’s a problem
The federal funding system for scientific research in the U.S. is crumbling. Here’s how it can be rebuilt
Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted to get it right?
Scientific American used expert recommendations and data analysis to identify 28 exceptional early-career researchers
Some countries have seen a stark decline in academic freedom over the past decade
Creating techniques to allow scientists to see biological processes in real time
There are bright futures ahead for our first-ever Young American Scientist honorees
Building models to understand how self-organizing structures in cells lead to disease
Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather
Inside a factory in southern France, millions of tiger mosquitoes are being bred, not to spread, but to stop them from reproducing—though scaling up such efforts poses a mighty challenge.
