Scientific American

Why the destruction of Qatar’s liquid natural gas “trains” by Iranian attacks will have global consequences

Engineers explain how a collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck at one of New York’s busiest airports turned deadly

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

An optical illusion with nine simple dots reveals a surprising amount about the eye and brain

High in the Rockies, researchers are discovering that wind-borne pollution and rising heat are fueling unprecedented algal blooms

The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve