At a controversial meeting of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel recently, members voted to remove a long-standing recommendation that all babies get a first ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor AI have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did just make its first ...

Astronomers just captured a never-before-seen detail of how matter makes its way from stars into planets and eventually even living things—and they did it entirely by accident. One night in November ...

For four years, little red dots (LRDs) have been the hottest topic in astrophysics. Astronomers first noticed them in observations that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made in 2022. The LRDs ...

Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997 ...

Mathematician Yang-Hui He explains why artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming mathematical work—and that's a ...

President Donald Trump and other Republican officials had criticized this chapter as biased against fossil fuel companies ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion people will experience partly or fully dark skies as the moon passes directly in front of our star, ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. One quick heads up: This episode features some spoilers for Project Hail Mary. If there’s one thing that the many, many ...

Imagine a lion with the nose of a dying star, a mane of space dust and a habitat 10,000 light-years away from Earth. On its infrared galactic safari, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just ...

The vagus nerve is the autonomic nervous system’s highway, connecting every major organ ...

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