After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

This kind of ‘magic’ could lead to a computer revolution.

In the 1930s, the Switzer brothers stumbled onto a way to mimic fluorescence. That led to Day-Glo, which has been making the world a brighter place ever since ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever.

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...

Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

Tautz et al. (2026): Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms, Genetics Vol. 232, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyag024 ...

Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second most energetic cosmic ray ever to be detected striking Earth.

In a welcome return to active flight vehicle testing after setbacks and facility upgrades, SpaceX made strong progress with ...