To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most fascinating magazine covers over the years.

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t necessarily scandalous. They were part of everyday life.

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

In a Perspective published in PNAS Nexus, Julio M. Ottino describes different classes of creativity and proposes a benchmark ...

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery is currently hosting “Adventures in Time & Space – an unofficial Doctor Who exhibition” ...

The advance was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the UC San Diego Materials ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study ...

“Though the initial idea was to create a story centered around Cotswolds towns and landmarks, and reimagining local folklore ...

The book features Ella, a young girl who needs surgery after a skateboarding accident, and explains the surgical process in a ...