In the new study, researchers created an AI-powered computer “worm” designed to attack and spread between devices—revealing a ...

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s ...

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before ...

On December 7, 1877, Thomas Edison walked into the offices of Scientific American in New York City and placed a metal device ...

The landmark success of a drug against an ‘undruggable’ cancer is spurring fresh optimism in the quest to treat seemingly untouchable tumour targets. The experimental drug, daraxonrasib, disarms all ...

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in ...

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math ...

In the April 2001 issue of Scientific American, I began this column with an entry entitled “Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's Dictum,” inspired by the British naturalist's remark that “all observation ...

In a first, scientists transplanted both a pig liver and kidneys into a person who was braindead The transplanted pig organs ...

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before ...

Atlantic sturgeon in the Hudson River in New York generate low frequency “thunder” sounds while mating, according to recent ...