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Scientific American

Will we ever know how life began?

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Why we love unexplainable mysteries

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What if ‘consciousness’ isn’t real?

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What if we never find dark matter?

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What are the smallest pieces of the universe?

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The questions science may never answer

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The Pentagon tests lasers and microwaves against drone swarms

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See how gravitational waves warp time and space

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Science crossword: Broken thoughts

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Readers respond to the May 2026 issue

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Poem: ‘The Golden Record’

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October 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

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Google DeepMind wants Gemini to power many different robots

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Finding meaning in the impossible

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Can humans live forever?

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Are darker egg yolks really healthier?

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Trump repeals emissions regulations of fossil-fuel power plants

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25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline

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What caused this woman’s hallucinations? Doctors reveal an infestation of brain worms

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25 years after 9/11, AI sparks a math debate as data center pollution concerns grow

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How our sense of beauty takes shape in the brain

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Why doing nothing is good for your brain

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How AI can help with early schizophrenia diagnosis

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AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight

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Unique, mathematical 60-sided "Go First Dice" go on display

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The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

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Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria

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‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

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Why the Swift telescope was so special

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Are AI chatbots making us less human?

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25 years after 9/11, survivors are still getting sick—here are the numbers

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El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people

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The Pacific is being beset by hurricane after hurricane—why is the Atlantic so quiet?

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Indonesian volcano erupts with enough force to see from space

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The planet Mercury is shrinking far faster than we thought

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August 2026 ties for hottest month ever recorded

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AI has finally come for math—mathematicians might never recover

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New maps reveal hidden landscapes inside a prehistoric supercontinent

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Astronomers reveal a new type of celestial object that has been hiding in plain sight for decades

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Scientists unlock new clues to what Denisovans, a mysterious ancient human ancestor, looked like

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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming

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Fog may be hiding secret ecosystems

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The science of friendship and loneliness

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SpaceXAI’s Colossus data center is fueling a massive backlash

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This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did

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There are just five perfect shapes in math—here’s why

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OpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversy

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Something unique seems to be happening to the brain in menopause

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New Google DeepMind atlas could transform our understanding of genetic diseases

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