
Why do hurricanes come in seasons?
Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

Why do hurricanes come in seasons?
Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet
The AI boom has a memory problem
These exotic particles could break physics
A new Ebola outbreak has killed hundreds—and the U.S. response is alarming experts
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How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate
Andrew Scott learned all about meteorology for his latest film Pressure
China launches rival rocket to SpaceX Falcon 9 for the first time
Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment
What’s a quantum computer good for, anyway?
NASA’s Artemis era may finally solve three major moon mysteries
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

Can peanut allergies be cured?
How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
These cancers were beyond treatment—but might not be anymore
A new book debunks the myth of human selfishness—and makes the case for an ‘ecocivilization’
This researcher made up a disease to test AI. It failed miserably
Putting a nuclear reactor on the moon: big promise, bigger challenges

What’s the biggest galaxy in the universe?
Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

Top U.S. science funder slows research grants to universities
It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster
Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

New protein-folding AI predicts the structures of 1 billion proteins
The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

OpenAI announces AI’s biggest math breakthrough yet
A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in math’s top journal if humans had done it alone

Are the roots of consciousness hidden in the ancient deep brain?
Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club will get a lot bigger