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

Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container that was stashed ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is ...

An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no ...

Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Three vaccines were on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key advisory panel on immunization: the combined ...

As the slope flattened out, the landslide blew open the channel and spread out, depositing a wall of uprooted trees just ...

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more ...

For the study, owners of 10 talented dogs —mostly border collies—taught them words for two categories: tug toys, called pulls ...