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The AI ParadoxVirginia Dignum Princeton Univ. Press (2026)Some leading thinkers on artificial intelligence regard AI models as neither artificial nor intelligent. Virginia Dignum — who has…

March 5, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmIs the key to better aging all in our mind?Many older adults improve their physical and cognitive…

When Rachel Pope started studying the menopause transition a decade ago, she hadn’t lived it herself. So, she asked her three older sisters who they would…

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Zhen Xu, Ellen Roche and Xiwen Gong (left to right) are this year’s recipients of the…

March 6, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHow exactly does the Pentagon evict Claude?Swapping out one AI model on a classified network for another…

In October last year, psychology student Jazz Nuku posted a video to the social-media platform TikTok explaining the overlap that she had observed between evolution, physics,…

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s relatives lead the Lost Women of Science production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit,…

A medical team at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an, China, surgically connected a man with liver failure to an external, genetically…

March 6, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmMichael Pollan explains why AI will never replicate human consciousnessMichael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science…