To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most fascinating magazine covers over the years. Take a tour here through the covers so ...

Combining newer neural networks with older AI systems could be the secret to building an AI to match or surpass human ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Have you ever fantasized about going back in time to relive a moment — or change it? Maybe you’re more interested in ...

The biological world is always expanding as research is constantly being done. Because of this, many findings often fall ...

So we decided to bring the concept into the 21st century: an e-mail time capsule. We built a tool for our website that ...

Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved. Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the ...

Michael J. Socolow does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In “The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe,” Matthew von Hippel discusses vacuum decay, in which a change in the Higgs field would create an expanding quantum bubble that would transform ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...