NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land Grab
Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030
NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land Grab
Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030
What Is the Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak That Has Killed Two People in New York City?
How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Mathematical Wave Conjecture
Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat
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Mysterious Illness Decimating Sea Stars Finally Identified
The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It
Teens Are Flocking to AI Chatbots. Is this Healthy?
How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare
Reckoning with Our Mistakes
Jigsaws: SciAm Cover Art
Evolution of the Scientific American Logo
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
The Secret to the Strongest Force in the Universe
Why Aren’t We Made of Antimatter?
Claude 4 Chatbot Raises Questions about AI Consciousness
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Summer Meteor Showers, Short Summer Days and Ancient Arthropods
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Some Mathematicians Don’t Believe in Infinity
Can “finitism” possibly describe the real world?
Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Plant Genetics
The lowdown on the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to repeal of the “endangerment” finding. Also, how did a juicy ketchup ingredient help create a starchy tuber?
How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Mathematical Wave Conjecture
When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption
Russian Volcano, Dormant for Hundreds of Years, Erupts after Massive Nearby Quake
The Krasheninnikov volcano, located less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of Russia’s July 29 earthquake, began erupting on August 3
JWST Spots Ancient Light That Shouldn’t Exist
JWST observations of light sources before the first galaxies should have formed are raising new questions about our galactic origins
You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories
Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions about why people forget their earliest years