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

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My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the ...

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 ...

A declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at risk and joins similar ...

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just ...

The largest yet study on a four-day workweek included 141 companies, 90 percent of which retained the arrangement at the end ...

Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than ...

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 ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

Acknowledging the limits of one’s own knowledge could be as important a signal of expertise as credentials and confidence ...