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A passage from Homer's Iliad discovered inside of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by acdanger 20 hours ago | past | discuss
The Simpsons reference that refutes one of history's greatest mathematicians (scientificamerican.com)
3 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | past | discuss
NASA chief hints at campaign to make Pluto a planet again (scientificamerican.com)
4 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | past | discuss
City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why (scientificamerican.com)
7 points by jagaerglad 2 days ago | past | 2 comments
How Do Food Manufacturers Calculate the Calorie Count of Packaged Foods? (2003) (scientificamerican.com)
5 points by downbad_ 4 days ago | past | 1 comment
The cause of heart disease is inflammation (scientificamerican.com)
6 points by sleepyguy 5 days ago | past | discuss
The Paradox of Karl Popper (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by baxtr 5 days ago | past | 1 comment
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)
794 points by pr337h4m 6 days ago | past | 560 comments
Electric air taxis. Vertical Aerospace's VX4 just cleared a key test (scientificamerican.com)
9 points by beardyw 6 days ago | past | discuss
Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by quapster 7 days ago | past | discuss
Plants can 'hear' rain coming, spurring them into action (scientificamerican.com)
4 points by dylan604 9 days ago | past | 2 comments
Mathematicians found out why waiting for the elevator takes forever (scientificamerican.com)
1 point by sohkamyung 9 days ago | past | discuss
The way cocaine water pollution is changing salmon (scientificamerican.com)
1 point by Anon84 9 days ago | past | 1 comment
A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory (scientificamerican.com)
121 points by sohkamyung 10 days ago | past | 20 comments
Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for 'blowing up' equations (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by signa11 10 days ago | past | discuss
Some fish can tell when you're staring at them or their eggs (scientificamerican.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 10 days ago | past | discuss
Why Birds Were the Only Dinosaurs to Survive Mass Extinction (scientificamerican.com)
8 points by bryanrasmussen 11 days ago | past | 2 comments
Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for 'blowing up' equations (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by tzury 12 days ago | past | discuss
Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobar's invasive 'cocaine hippos' (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by zdw 12 days ago | past | discuss
DARPA builds AI to investigate China's claim it can break military encryption (scientificamerican.com)
3 points by Jimmc414 14 days ago | past
It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011) (scientificamerican.com)
4 points by downbad_ 14 days ago | past | 3 comments
How the corpse flower came to be so weird (scientificamerican.com)
5 points by 1659447091 17 days ago | past
DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts (scientificamerican.com)
4 points by 1659447091 18 days ago | past
New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics (scientificamerican.com)
32 points by thunderbong 18 days ago | past | 13 comments
Trump administration proposes budget cuts to science (scientificamerican.com)
3 points by ZunarJ5 19 days ago | past
New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics (scientificamerican.com)
6 points by Brajeshwar 20 days ago | past | 1 comment
Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a 'civil war' (scientificamerican.com)
3 points by gscott 21 days ago | past
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a nuclear-powered flying drone to Titan (scientificamerican.com)
5 points by Brajeshwar 21 days ago | past | 2 comments
Scientists question CIA "Ghost Murmur" long-range heartbeat detection (scientificamerican.com)
5 points by daniel_iversen 21 days ago | past
How Artemis II is beaming back video from the moon with a laser system (scientificamerican.com)
8 points by thinkingemote 22 days ago | past | 1 comment

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