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How Close Are Today’s AI Models to AGI—And to Self-Improving into Superintelligence?
6 December 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence
Why Leftover Pizza Is Actually Healthier: The Science of “Resistant Starch” Explained
5 December 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Researchers have discovered that cooling starchy foods—from pizza to rice—creates “resistant starch,” a carb that behaves like fiber and alters your blood sugar response
Is a River Alive? A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane on Nature’s Sovereignty
5 December 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of 2025—and whether a river has rights
Was the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ Really a Comet?
5 December 2025 @ 6:10 pm
A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible
Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck's Worth of Waste Each Second
5 December 2025 @ 5:28 pm
An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, data shows
What If the Moon Were Cheese? John Scalzi’s Latest Book Has the Answer
5 December 2025 @ 4:15 pm
Scientific American talks to the author of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, one of our best fiction picks for 2025
CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth
5 December 2025 @ 3:40 pm
New guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.
Daniel H. Wilson on Finding a Native Take on Traditional Alien Invasion Stories
5 December 2025 @ 3:30 pm
Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, is one of Scientific American’s best fiction picks of 2025. In the novel, aliens talk through an AI headset and land in the Cherokee Nation, while the military scrambles to contain and control the unknown
Extremophile ‘Fire Amoeba’ Pushes the Boundaries of Complex Life
5 December 2025 @ 3:15 pm
It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption wrong
China’s Explosive Zhuque-3 Test Previews the Global Race for Reusable Rockets
5 December 2025 @ 2:45 pm
A partially successful test of China’s Zhuque-3 rocket shows that other countries are rapidly catching up with the U.S in the race for reusable rocketry