Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen ...

The brains of healthy people aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic than did the brains of people analysed before the pandemic began, a study of almost 1,000 people suggests. The accelerated ageing ...

Ozzy Osbourne, lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at age 76. He said he had been previously diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s disease linked to the gene PRKN ...

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

Lieke van Son is a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute and at Princeton University. She is set to join Radboud University in the Netherlands as an ...