Scientific American Magazine

After a years-long intellectual journey, three mathematicians have discovered that a problem of central importance in physics is impossible to solve—and that means other big questions may be undecidable, too

Artificial intelligence is making it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything at all

The best early warnings of a big disaster may appear 180 miles above the ground, a controversial new theory says

The way we pay for science does not encourage the best results

Better incentives could reduce the alarming number of studies that turn out to be wrong when repeated

A leader of a major report on sexual misconduct explains how to make science accessible to everyone

Life is hard for early-career researchers, who must contend with uncertain futures, compete for funding and balance family life, with the frequent need to move for jobs

Solving today’s complex, global problems will take interdisciplinary science

Using engineered forms of the rabies virus, neuroscientists can map brain circuits with unprecedented precision

With new risk maps, authorities hope to avoid mass exoduses and blocked exits