Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend
The inside story behind OpenAI’s million-dollar math proof
AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world
Astronomers unlock a mystery hidden in van Gogh’s The Starry Night
A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting
New superconducting chip aims to help tame fusion plasma
Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire
Ancient Egypt’s first female king revealed by long-lost royal seals
Ancient Egypt’s first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra
National Science Foundation leader Brian Stone to retire with no clear replacement in sight
President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Stone, James O’Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear
Super Typhoon Champi sets the record for strongest storm of 2026
The cyclone’s winds hit 185 miles per hour—the strongest windspeed of any storm this year
Report pinpoints future exploration sites on the Moon
Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the Moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle
A Wall Is Also a Road explores alien consciousness, slime mold life-forms and Pompeii
Slime mold aliens explore Pompeii—and humanity—in a new book by Annalee Newitz