Located 46 times further away from the sun than Earth and beyond Neptune, a mysterious object may be the sixth dwarf planet ever found in our solar system sciam.com/article/the-vera-c…

Another bombshell result shows how artificial intelligence is fueling fierce competition at the frontiers of math and physics. sciam.com/article/openai-jus…

A pirate's math for me: How Sir Walter Raleigh’s cannonball question accidentally became a problem that stumped mathematicians sciam.com/article/how-a-16th…

The CDC's deputy director and chief medical officer, Jennifer Shuford, is resigning after just four months in the role. Shuford, a Trump appointee, is an infectious disease expert and had reportedly disagreed with the administration's vaccine policies sciam.com/article/cdc-deputy…

OpenAI just dropped more earth-shattering AI-generated math results. But two of them coincided with almost identical work by Anthropic. The ongoing “slop drop” continues to stagger and frustrate experts across math, physics and computer science. sciam.com/article/dueling-pr…

Despite the death of a worker at a Russian plague lab, there are important reasons why we'll probably never see an event like the Black Death again. sciam.com/article/why-well-n…

Anthropic's S-1 filing offers a glimpse at how the start-up hopes to balance AI discovery and emerging threats: “Moving quickly brings AI’s benefits sooner, but moving too quickly could outrun the world’s ability to make AI systems safe.” sciam.com/article/anthropics…

For patients receiving CAR-T therapy, treatment is only one part of the journey. Travel, caregiver support, insurance, manufacturing timelines and follow-up care can all shape access. Researchers and clinicians are exploring ways to make that journey more patient-centered. [Sponsored by @LegendBiotech] scientificamerican.com/custo…

When a 43-year-old man presented with a high fever, fatigue and muscle pain, doctors were stumped—until they did lung scans. A round blotch in his right lung led them to test for an unusual disease: psittacosis, or parrot fever sciam.com/article/how-birds-…

Plans to put U.S. data centers underwater are alarming ecologists: the noise and heat that annoy people could also stress endangered whales sciam.com/article/underwater…

From cartwheeling snakes to confident preschoolers and missions to Mars, this week’s Science Quickly roundup covers recent science, including on animals, big and small. sciam.com/podcast/episode/sn…

Do you feel horrified by clusters of holes or circles? You may have trypophobia. Once dismissed as an Internet meme gone too far, now researchers are homing in on what may be driving this aversion—is it disgust, or fear? sciam.com/article/what-is-tr…

A linguist explains how politicians' accents reflect their worldview—and the message they want to convey to voters sciam.com/article/why-partis…

Why is social media so hard to put down? Join Scientific American associate editor Allison Parshall and neuroscientist Eva Telzer on November 5 for a live discussion exploring the science behind social media addiction and how to build healthier relationships with technology. bigmarker.com/labx-media-gro…

With less than a year to go before the planned launch of Artemis III, NASA leaders laid out a packed schedule for the mission, including three rocket launches that will send the Orion capsule and two lunar landers into orbit sciam.com/article/nasa-lays-…

Think Captain America but for dogs. The start-up Warhound wants to create a new class of military superdogs using cloning and genetic engineering. We asked scientists what they think. sciam.com/article/warhound-w…

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… A flying black triangle swooping through a canyon and spooking multiple federal agents? The U.S. government’s latest “UFO files” release includes this odd report, and more. sciam.com/article/strange-tr…

The Pentagon has granted the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a controversial and little-used “heat ray” weapon at the U.S.-Mexico border, prompting questions over how safe it is and how it works sciam.com/article/the-trump-…