Scientific American Content: Global

Could Tutankhamun's tomb hold clues to a mysterious Egyptian queen?

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Signs of hidden chambers in the walls of the famous boy king's tomb have raised hopes among researchers of finding hints of Nefertiti's burial place—Tutankhamun's stepmother and mother-in-law

This beer-making waste may offer a new stream for cleaner water

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The research offers yet another way the brewery industry might repurpose its myriad by-products

Why taking a break from exercise might not mean you need to start from scratch

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Why taking a break from exercise doesn't may not mean you need to start from scratch

Major earthquake strikes Panama—damage and injuries are expected

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:45:00 +0000

The quake was a strike-slip event, and strong aftershocks could follow

How Hurricane Isaias got so dangerously strong so fast

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:05:00 +0000

The Category 3 storm intensified overnight—and is headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Here’s what to know

The Social Reckoning is a ‘surreal’ portrait of social media’s harms, scientist says

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

The movie is based on the true story of how Facebook employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on the company’s safety practices

I gave Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots my passwords for a week

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Meta’s and OpenAI’s new agents can streamline your life. Artificial intelligence researchers helped me test how far to trust them

Just how sunlike is the sun?

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0000

When compared with similar stars, where does sun fit in?

One doctor’s fight to make IUD placement better

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

A new study shows promising results in lowering pain during IUD placements

Feverish after a vaccine? The reason could be your gut microbiome

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

In a new study, people who had worse fevers after a COVID shot tended to have similar gut characteristics

The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming new deluge of achievements

Mathematicians marvel, and grumble, at OpenAI’s trove of new results

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking proofs, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious

Astronomers discover record-breaking ancient cosmic outburst

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from three billion years after the big bang and could help map the universe’s otherwise-invisible intergalactic matter

This September was the hottest ever on record for the U.S.

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:10:00 +0000

It’s been a blistering year. A record-hot September doesn’t bode well for the rest of it

Artemis II images boost NASA’s moon base plans

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

The first crewed lunar mission in more than a half-century brought back more than 800 gigabytes of data on colorful craters, flashing meteoroids, and much more

Hurricane Isaias just set a new record for Atlantic storms

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:25:00 +0000

Isaias just became the latest-forming first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season since reliable records began, meteorologists say

The ‘Kelvin wave’ hitting California is a potent warning about sea-level rise

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sea level on the California coast is likely to be pushed to extremes this winter by compounding forces, but these extremes could be the norm by the end of the century

Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0000

With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering

A suspected case of pneumonic plague is raising fears of an outbreak. Should you be worried?

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Russian authorities reported earlier this week that an employee at a lab in Siberia that studies plague and other infectious diseases had died of pneumonia of “unknown” cause

Scientists unlock the longevity secrets of 194-year-old Jonathan the giant tortoise

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000

The secret to Jonathan the tortoise’s extreme longevity may be in keeping genes tidy

The Atlantic hurricane season has been eerily quiet—Tropical Storm Isaias could change that

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Tropical Storm Isaias is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday, meteorologists say

Why does weed cause anxiety? A new brain study investigates cannabis paranoia

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

A new study explores what goes on in the brain when mice get high on marijuana

What is AI model distillation, and why is it so hard to stop?

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Anthropic and OpenAI accused Chinese AI developers of mining their models’ answers to train cheaper copycats. Here’s how distillation works and why it’s so hard to stop

Rogue AI or human error? The real story behind the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Behind the headlines about AI agents lies a deeper debate over accountability, safety and control.

2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work in ‘mirror’ chemistry

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:45:00 +0000

The prize recognizes Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai’s discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis

OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:19:00 +0000

A month after resolving one of the six biggest open problems in mathematics, the company says its new internal model has toppled heaps more—this time without the multimillion-dollar price tag

Two meteor showers are lighting up the October sky—here’s how to see them

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The Draconids and Orionids both peak this month

What makes a good AI safety test? Experts explain why even the best techniques may not be powerful enough

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000

“With today’s science we usually can’t show with high confidence that dangerous behavior isn’t there”

2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for discovery of high-energy neutrinos

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Francis Halzen is a leader in the study of neutrinos, ghostly particles from across the universe that hint at exciting new physics

These Super Mario levels are mathematically unsolvable

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In math and Mario Land, there are questions that are algorithmically undecidable, meaning they will demonstrably never have an answer

United Arab Emirates to launch spacecraft to probe seven asteroids in 2028

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The country’s space program is new and ambitious, having already sent a mission into Mars orbit

Astronomers catch dwarf stars gobbling up their orbiting companions

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Red and white dwarf stars may be hungrier than we thought

Why the creative brain feeds on movement

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Movement and creativity go hand in hand. Scientists are working to discover why

Should you be ‘poop maxxing,’ or ‘fiber maxxing’? Experts explain what’s healthy

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Your feces can tell you a lot about your health

An El Niño–fueled ocean wave could raise California flood risks as Florida’s vaccine debate sparks outbreak concerns

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

An El Niño–driven ocean surge threatens coastal flooding, researchers warn that a plan to loosen vaccine requirements will increase measles risks in Florida, and experts debunk a viral TikTok cold remedy

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for work on optogenetics

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000

Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual cells

How attachment theory can help us understand AI relationships

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together

How the brain uses memory to imagine what might have been

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Philosopher and 2026 MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Felipe De Brigard explains how our brains use imagination to reconstruct the past

How AI helped bring an ancient tomb dating to before the Roman Empire back to life

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Pairing artificial intelligence with acoustic technology helped reveal an Etrurian tomb in new light

Could a giant iceberg really break off Greenland? Scientists check Tom Cruise’s new movie Digger

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

In the movie, a giant iceberg from Greenland floats into the sea, imperiling millions—but is that even possible?

2026 has been a record hot year for the U.S.—it can only get worse

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:14:00 +0000

So far this year has been ridiculously hot. If it stays that way, 2026 could set a sobering new record

This weird particle may have come from a black hole exploding in another dimension

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

An unexplained high-energy neutrino detected three years ago could be linked to a primordial black hole, perhaps one more even unusual than previously thought

Can bioengineered bacteria help terraform Mars?

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000

The nonprofit start-up Pioneer Labs claims to have made the first-ever “microbe for Mars.” Other experts aren’t so sure

How to see rainbows on exoplanets

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0000

A future NASA telescope could spot atmospheric phenomena on planets orbiting other stars

Mathematicians name 50 of the highest-stakes problems in math

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Mathematicians have a new bucket list of open questions to chase

How to start foraging for edible plants, according to Black Forager

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

How foraging can change the way we think about food and nature

Google’s Project Suncatcher AI data center test has officially launched to space onboard SpaceX rocket

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Project Suncatcher is aimed at testing Google's AI chips in the harsh environment of space

Scientists discover that Earth’s crust has repeatedly rolled over—and it’s still happening

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000

An analysis of ancient sea-level changes reveals that the whole solid Earth has shifted multiple times

Google tests its plan for AI data centers in space with Project Suncatcher

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:55:00 +0000

Today Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a data center can survive space

Scientists are decoding elephant rumble calls, including ‘greetings’ and ‘coos’

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Scientists are piecing together why elephants make these low calls and what they might mean