Are we ready for a dose of digital medicine?Jackie Niam/iStock/Getty Images One of OpenAI’s leading artificial intelligence models can outperform humans at diagnosing medical conditions, but does that mean AI is ready to replace human doctors? Not quite, although such...
Sugar cane growth can be increased using genetic tweaksPrzemyslaw Koch/Getty Images The growth of maize, sugarcane and sorghum has been greatly boosted by modifying the plants to take advantage of higher carbon dioxide levels now found in the air. This...
A Guam kingfisher chickThomas Manglona KUAM Amid a torrent of gloomy news about the decline of nature, there have been a handful of inspiring success stories from the world of wildlife this year, including positive developments for frogs, tigers and...
A few years ago, a patient of mine—let's call her Pandora—purchased four DNA testing kits as holiday gifts for herself and her siblings. She had seen the TV ads promising that a few ounces of spit would uncover otherwise unattainable...
December 18, 20242 min readU.S. Has a First Case of Severe Bird Flu, CDC Confirms in H5N1 UpdateLouisiana reported a person hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1, and the USDA has begun bulk milk testingBy Tanya Lewis edited by...
The end of 2024 is approaching, marking another full loop around the sun for our planet. So Scientific American is here to celebrate with nine of our favorite space-related images from the year. In case you’ve lost track, 2024 was...
If you want to make a huge splash when dive-bombing, you need to get your technique just rightStudio Nut/Shutterstock To make the biggest splash when you dive-bomb into water, the secret seems to be to use the Manu technique practised...
The Penguin and the compact elliptical galaxy the EggNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now been focusing its powerful eye on space for more than two years, and it marked this anniversary with a picture of...
Every story is a science story, even the ones that sound more like science fiction. This year Scientific American introduced readers to real discoveries that sounded a bit like science-fiction, such as the crime rings trafficking sand around the world...
December 18, 20243 min readWill the World's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here's Why We're SkepticalThe fusion power plant would go live in the next decade and produce 400 megawatts of electricity, says Commonwealth Fusion SystemsBy...
