Scientific American

New results challenge AI’s promise for solving how fluids swirl—and suggest a more human path forward

The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines happened at a subduction zone, places capable of producing the largest earthquakes possible

On Sunday Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the cooling inner garment that NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear under their space suits on the moon

This experimental plane, which reached supersonic speeds yesterday, is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating bothersome sonic booms

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

The sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

The order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

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

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

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

The proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories

There Is No Antimemetics Division explores how to survive when memories and meaning are malleable

A small, aging fleet repairs the fiber-optic cables that carry data around the globe, and conflict zones can slow that work to a crawl

One in four abortions in the U.S. rely on telehealth access to mifepristone, but antiabortion activists want to ban it

Author Jeremy Lent argues that human society runs on a flawed, exploitative worldview—and that embracing interconnectedness could enable a more sustainable future

The critters were carrying the Sin Nombre variant of hantavirus, which can be spread from rodents to humans, but not from one person to another