Pancreatic cancer is typically caught in its latest stages, when it is hardest to treat

A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable to discuss the enduring mysteries that continue to challenge science

Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace

Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it

Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of how the numbers in a sequence aren’t as clear-cut as they may first appear

A high-ranking official announced yesterday that the U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit to counter threats from Russia and China

Experts say free lunch for every child improves academic performance. Whether it does is murky, according to a Scientific American analysis, but there are definite financial and social benefits

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which major unsolved question could be resolved next

Hang a painting poorly in this math puzzle

The biggest questions in science inspire us even when we lack answers

Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure

Some questions may never be answered, but maybe that’s not the point

Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity

Physicists are searching for what lies underneath the particles we know

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

Play this crossword inspired by the October 2026 issue of Scientific American

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

Smallpox eradication; skyscraper excavations; research on the racetrack

Science in meter and verse