Author: Scientific American

The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UFOs. Here are the images released so far

After decades of fighting for renewable energy, solar power is finally achieving economic dominance. But AI data centers threaten to consume those energy gains

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will study nature’s most mysterious particle a mile beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills and will potentially reveal the origins of matter

The Pentagon’s first UFO file release includes photographs, videos and documents gathered by several governmental offices and agencies, including the FBI, the White House and NASA

Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship

The problem with Pluto isn’t its planetary or nonplanetary status—it’s our insistence on declaring the world must be one or the other

AI models and people played “collaborative” Battleship to test strategies for efficiently solving problems

As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue