Andrea Gawrylewski

AI’s integration into everything—untangling traffic snarls, dictating drug prescriptions, rewriting the rules of scientific discovery—is accelerating quickly

Even how matter exists in the first place is a mystery to physicists

Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other species

As AI grows more fluent in mimicking human empathy, language and memory, we’re left asking: If a machine can fake awareness so well, what exactly is the real thing?

The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperature

The latest report shows that the estimated number of endangered vaquita porpoises has modestly increased

Mathematics is not only an esoteric vocation but also indispensably alive and deeply human

Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of 2025—and whether a river has rights

An astrophotographer teamed up with Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman to create these stunning new images of the lunar surface

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses