Kodak wasn’t trying to monitor nuclear activity — but something unusual started showing up in its film. What began as a manufacturing mystery quickly turned into a discovery with global implications.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

At first glance, this robot looks too soft and simple to be useful — until it starts growing through spaces that would stop almost anything else. It can push past glue, survive punctures, and keep ...