Scientific American

The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star

Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children’s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has shown

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Cascadia megathrust fault

ChatGPT and Gemini AI write in different idioms, linguists find

In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity

Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from