To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...

AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

The move drew sharp criticism from medical and health experts. “Scrapping the fastest platform we have is a reckless move ...

Without the theorem of the excluded middle, all kinds of difficulties arise. In fact, many mathematical proofs are based on ...

Solar panels, wind turbines, a hydrogen energy system and lithium-ion batteries are powering China’s newest polar research ...

If the EPA abdicates its responsibility to address climate change, it will harm health and the planet in exchange for ...

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the ...

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030 ...

When serious accidents happen in magnetic resonance imaging scanners, it’s usually because people ignore one very important ...

But an innovation that’s at least 3,000 years old—terracotta—is emerging as a low-cost, low-energy alternative. Once used by ...