Scientific American

The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life

A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven

The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here—but the real news came one week before: the “muon g–2 anomaly” might have never existed

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will help us solve it