Scientific American

The cat is smaller than a house cat but has the spots of a leopard

As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels

More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old

Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now.

Our sun is on a long, strange trip to its eventual demise. Here are the key stops along the way

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake

Don’t have the energy to catch your own meal? This dolphin has a gross solution

Science is helping to peel back the layers of how dogs process the world around them

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

As temperatures rise, the evidence is clear that heat is eroding students’ ability to learn

A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that’s quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city

The dinosaurs were once considered reptilian, but the new results suggest we may need to rethink their evolution

Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity

Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017

A high-ranking official announced yesterday that the U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit to counter threats from Russia and China

The pages come from a copy of Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ that once belonged to John Gage, an enforcer in Henry VIII’s court and a key figure in the historical dissolution of the monasteries

Independent auditors are emerging as a key part of plans to rein in frontier AI. But the systems are evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate them

Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped

The malleability of memory once cast doubt on eyewitness identification in criminal cases, but new research reveals how eyewitness memory can be used accurately

The surprising real-world applications of high-dimensional sphere packing and the 48-year-old barrier that OpenAI just broke

After months of headaches and visual hallucinations, a woman was finally revealed to have brain cysts filled with tapeworm larvae

Both the president and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have made numerous false claims about the vaccines’ efficacy and safety

The technique opens new possibilities for investigating neurological conditions, from autism to dementia

A new declaration from winners of the Fields Medal reflects many mathematicians’ growing alarm over a “severe misalignment” between the tech industry and their field a week after AI toppled one of math’s biggest open problems

Pancreatic cancer is typically caught in its latest stages, when it is hardest to treat

Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable to discuss the enduring mysteries that continue to challenge science

The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began