Scientific American Magazine

The Herculaneum scrolls, charred and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, were unreadable—until now

Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself

Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insights on demand. What could go wrong?

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad

Electrons swarm in a soup of quantum entanglement in a new class of materials called strange metals

Hostility toward LGBTQ kids, enshrined in hundreds of new bills, has put families with such children under unprecedented threat, raising risks of suicide and physical attacks

People keep trying to help old-growth forests survive fire by cutting trees, even though the forests have done fine on their own for 1,000 years