To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most ...

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance s ...

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge The iconic shower scene in Psycho ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

An analysis suggests Nanotyrannus is a separate, smaller dinosaur that lived alongside T. rex, settling a 30-year debate ...

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood ...

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new ...

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism ...

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever ...

New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...