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Late on Tuesday night, the city of El Paso, Tex., learned that the airspace over El Paso International Airport had been closed as of 11:30 P.M.…

In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistants…

AI slop is flooding computer science journals and conferences.Credit: Quality Stock/AlamyFifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he…

Valentine’s Day is here. And for those who want to ditch the candy and the dinner date for a good book, the staff at Scientific American…

Ice skating is counterintuitive: why should a narrow blade make it easier to slide over the ice? The science is surprisingly complex, but unscientific people worked…

Science has not yet settled whether an all-consuming social-media habit qualifies as a true addiction. Credit: Paul Hanna/AFP/GettyIs social media addictive to young people? A jury…

February 12, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWhat repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public healthThe EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate…

Your article (UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities, 6 February) is right to highlight the serious consequences of proposed…

First established as a treatment for diabetes, semaglutide’s popularity as a weight-loss drug has opened the door to new therapies.Credit: Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via GettyWhat do…

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left…