Will we ever know how life began?
Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure
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Finding meaning in the impossible
Some questions may never be answered, but maybe that’s not the point
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What are the smallest pieces of the universe?
Physicists are searching for what lies underneath the particles we know
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What if ‘consciousness’ isn’t real?
Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong
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Science crossword: Broken thoughts
Play this crossword inspired by the October 2026 issue of Scientific American
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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October 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago
Smallpox eradication; skyscraper excavations; research on the racetrack
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The questions science may never answer
Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved?
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Why we love unexplainable mysteries
The biggest questions in science inspire us even when we lack answers
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Are darker egg yolks really healthier?
Deep-orange yolks could have a slight health benefit, but it’s easy for producers to fake it
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See how gravitational waves warp time and space
The latest gravitational-wave discoveries include record-breaking cataclysms
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Google DeepMind wants Gemini to power many different robots
The company’s push into physical AI is putting Gemini inside humanoids—and testing whether its intelligence can survive…
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What if we never find dark matter?
Could the hunt for the universe’s missing matter be the biggest wild goose chase in scientific history?
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Readers respond to the May 2026 issue
Letters to the editors for the May 2026 issue of Scientific American
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The Pentagon tests lasers and microwaves against drone swarms
After decades of hype, directed-energy weapons may offer the U.S. military a cheaper answer to the expensive problem of…
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Trump repeals emissions regulations of fossil-fuel power plants
The reversal of a Biden-era cap on emissions from the plants could have devastating effects in efforts to stop climate…
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25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline
A new declaration from winners of the Fields Medal reflects many mathematicians’ growing alarm over a “severe…
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25 years after 9/11, AI sparks a math debate as data center pollution concerns grow
As new 9/11 documents emerge, AI transforms math and fuels debates over pollution, power and progress
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What caused this woman’s hallucinations? Doctors reveal an infestation of brain worms
After months of headaches and visual hallucinations, a woman was finally revealed to have brain cysts filled with…
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How our sense of beauty takes shape in the brain
A new study tries to map why humans can experience beauty collectively
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How AI can help with early schizophrenia diagnosis
The speech of people with schizophrenia sounds subtly different from their healthy counterparts. Can AI hear those…
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Why doing nothing is good for your brain
The case for not filling up every minute of your day
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AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight
An Anthropic researcher quit over fears of runaway AI. His colleague who still works there agreed. Security experts…
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Unique, mathematical 60-sided "Go First Dice" go on display
Researchers devised the dice to solve a tricky math problem: When playing a game, who goes first?
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The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record
The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began
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Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria
Scientists have long wondered how these bizarre creatures endured for years without food—now they’ve found out why
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Why the Swift telescope was so special
NASA’s formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our…
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‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space
Two studies find signs of strange black hole binary systems
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Are AI chatbots making us less human?
What do we lose when machines become our closest confidants?
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25 years after 9/11, survivors are still getting sick—here are the numbers
A quarter of a century after the Twin Towers fell, those who lived through the attacks are still seeking care for…
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El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people
The fires are burning peatlands, which can release more particulate matter into the air than other wildfires
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The Pacific is being beset by hurricane after hurricane—why is the Atlantic so quiet?
The Pacific Ocean has seen an especially active hurricane season so far, while the Atlantic has had barely a whimper of…
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Indonesian volcano erupts with enough force to see from space
NASA’s satellites captured the aftermath of the eruption, which lasted for more than a day
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The planet Mercury is shrinking far faster than we thought
The planet’s “wrinkles” give scientists a clue into how the world is contracting in size
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