December 23, 20243 min readChemists Seeking Better Bandages Make World’s Smallest PastaResearchers seeking better bandages are creating extremely thin fibers of starchBy Ben Guarino edited by Sarah Lewin FrasierA bowl of plain noodles (a strand of the world's tiniest pasta,...
December 23, 20245 min readAmericans Are Moody, and Pollsters Should Pay AttentionThe full potential of public opinion polling lies in its ability to illuminate deeper societal trends beyond electoral forecastsBy Jennifer Benz In April 2021 the first media poll to...
December 23, 20243 min readHow Climate Change Could Trigger EarthquakesClimate change may influence seismic activity as melting glaciers reduce pressure on quake-prone faultsBy Evan Howell edited by Andrea ThompsonNorth Crestone Creek valley, a U-shaped valley carved by ancient glaciers in...
There are some places in the solar system no human will ever go. The surface of Venus, with its thick atmosphere and crushing pressure, is all but inaccessible. The outer worlds, such as Pluto, are too remote to presently consider...
Sam Raskin at Yale University and his colleagues have proved the geometric Langlands conjectureYale University/Dan Renzetti A mathematical breakthrough made this year is so complex that other mathematicians struggled to understand it, but it has already led to progress in...
A humpback whale breachingZack Metcalfe Human musicians must practise for thousands of hours to perfect their performance skills, and the same may be true for humpback whales. It is widely believed that male humpbacks (Megaptera novaeangliae) sing to attract mates,...
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.We’ve had a busy and exciting year here at Science Quickly. After a few months of working behind the scenes, I officially started hosting the show back in...
This year is projected to be the hottest on record. The latest United Nations estimates indicate that, without radical and immediate action, we are headed toward an increasingly unlivable planet with an increase of up to 3.1 degrees Celsius by...
OpenAI announced a breakthrough achievement for its new o3 AI modelRokas Tenys / Alamy OpenAI’s new o3 artificial intelligence model has achieved a breakthrough high score on a prestigious AI reasoning test called the ARC Challenge, inspiring some AI fans...
Could we build a secure quantum internet with the cables we already use?Shutterstock/Connect world Caught in a traffic jam with the internet, quantum teleportation persists. An experiment demonstrating that the two can share an optical fibre may point towards an...
