Science
Scientific American
The Quiet Math Problem That Runs the Planet
How Diffie-Hellman key exchange secures everything from your text messages to government secrets
7 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
The Fog of Science
Did an adversary just invent a world-changing weapon, or are they making it up? DARPA is building an AI to instantly call their bluff
4 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
The Hubble Space Telescope Is Still Awesome
Hubble is going strong despite its decades in space and next-generation successors
4 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Meet America's Native Bees
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.
5 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
The Chemistry of Desire
Inside the secretive laboratories where scientists build novel molecules to make luxury fragrance feel like pure emotion
5 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Scanning the Stone
As ore gets harder to find, the mining industry is turning to subatomic-particle sensors to push deep underground
8 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
YOUR HEART IN FLAMES
Inflammation may be the true cause of cardiovascular diseaseand there's a drug to treat it
10+ min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Ancient Lexicon
Stone Age art may reveal a 40,000-year-old precursor to writing
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Thermal Breakthrough
A new super heat conductor challenges fundamental physics
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
How to Vacation in Space
Planned orbital hotels promise luxury, but can they deliver?
4 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
An Icy Ear
The world's deepest sensors will hear earthquakes anywhere on the planet
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Melting Marvel
A strange substance bends the rules of glass and plastic
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
How AI and Human Judgment Differ
Putting humans and large language models head-to-head in tests of reasoning underscores the differences between them
5 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
A NEW KIND OF MAGNET
How the discovery of altermagnets could change physics and computing
10+ min |
May 2026
Scientific American
How Birds Survived THE DINOSAURS' DOOMSDAY
Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
10+ min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Discerning Chicks
A bird-brained \"bouba\" and \"kiki\" study challenges ideas of human language evolution
3 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
A Tale of Two Supplements
Creatine builds muscle, but methylene blue doesn't boost the brain
4 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Ingenuity in Timekeeping
Modern luxury watches hold decades of innovation and artistic craft
6 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Boosting Science
Inside NASA's audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope
4 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
The Mystery of the Vanishing Mussels
What's driving America's freshwater mussels toward extinction?
10+ min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Visions of Grandeur
Binoculars and other far-range optics span a gamut of price points. Here's what separates top-tier from entry-level
5 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Love Island
Rare berry bonanza spurs a Kākāpō baby boom
3 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Upright Heart
Here's how your heart knows you've stood up
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Trunk Sense
Elephants' peculiar whiskers help them feel the world around them
2 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
Flower Forger
Baby beetles work together to look and smell—like flowers
1 min |
May 2026
Scientific American
The Business of Space Weather
A company aims to offer better forecasts based on a new solar model
7 min |
April 2026
Scientific American
Mindless Sleep
Even without brains, sea anemones and jellyfish can sleep like humans do
1 min |
April 2026
Scientific American
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Young people are doing better than you think
10+ min |
April 2026
Scientific American
Something in THE WATER
Pristine alpine lakes are being choked by algal blooms. The culprit is in the air
9 min |
April 2026
Scientific American
A Dose of Prevention
New alert systems and biomarkers are spotting drug- induced kidney damage early, before irreversible harm
6 min |