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March 12, 2026 Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRyan Gosling says Project Hail Mary is ‘a reminder of what we’re capable of’Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher…

In the fall of 1997, the political scientist John J. Mearsheimer delivered the annual “Aims of Education” address to the entering class at the University of…

This week, a colleague received a spam email from an AI company—I won’t advertise it—that opened as follows: “[Company name] is working with a number of…

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone:…

There’s no easier way to explore far-off planets or find your one true love than by reading a great book. Scientific American’s staffers may spend their…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.One way that we here at Scientific American stay on top of what’s…

Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that tests your recognition of memorable lines. This week’s installment highlights lines from notable 20th-century science fiction novels. In…

Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British…

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You are an ancient and powerful vampire, and you wake up in the basement of some decrepit Seattle building, with no recent memories and a strange…