JWST’s Next Year of Amazing Science Revealed—As Funding Worries Loom Large
The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could affect the unparalleled observatory
Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain
Aurora Scientists Enlist Private Astronauts on Unusual Space Mission
Shingles Vaccination May Help Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientific American Curiosities: Dramatic Tool
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Why Some People Follow Authoritarian Leaders—And The Key to Stopping It
New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Funding Details
Tiny, Injectable Pacemaker Runs on Light and then Dissolves
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
Inside the AI Competition That Decoded an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works
God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand. What Could Go Wrong?
Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Shark Sounds, Molecules on Mars and Continued Federal Cuts
There’s Nothing Small about this Nanoscale Research
Invasive Plants Are Not the Enemy
NASA Astronauts Finally Return, Seals Hold Their Breath, and Penguin Poop Stresses Out Krill
Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree C goal and are examining how to maintain profits
NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge
The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in “one of the darkest days”
SpaceX Hits New Milestone with Fram2, the First-Ever Crewed Polar Mission
The privately funded Fram2 mission is the first ever to take astronauts into polar orbit—and the latest sign of a “new normal” for human spaceflight
Abel Prize Goes to Pioneer Whose “Math Toolbox” Can Be Used to Describe the Natural World
Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis
Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation
Does Intermittent Fasting Improve Health beyond Weight Loss?
Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off cancer and even slow aging
