It’s spooky season again. As the kids take to the streets to trick or treat, celebrities have gotten down to business, whipping up some iconic Halloween looks. Over the years, we’ve seen some legendary celebrity Halloween costumes like Paris Hilton’s Britney Spears or Emily Ratajowski’s Marge Simpson, and of course we can’t forget Heidi Klum’s…
Plans for a wealth tax, which is dividing France, have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and government debt has risen.
Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: How do genes give rise to different bodies? But without funding, “there’s not really a future here.”
Rachel Feltman: Happy Halloween, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday. That’s mostly because of the crisp autumn weather and the spooky vibes, but I certainly don’t mind an excuse to eat way, way more candy than usual. But what does this annual sugar splurge mean…
Every SOC leader knows the feeling: drowning in alerts, blind to the real threat, stuck playing defense in a war waged at the speed of AI. Now CrowdStrike and NVIDIA are flipping the script. Armed with autonomous agents powered by Charlotte AI and NVIDIA Nemotron models, security teams aren't just reacting; they're striking back at…
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin has been one of the best players in the NHL to start the 2025-26 season. He started the season with a bang, notching two assists in the Penguins’ 3-0 win over the New York Rangers in the season opener, and has stayed hot since, compiling two goals and nine points…
The U.S. space agency NASA is rejecting conspiracy claims by Kim Kardashian that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landings did not happen. In the most recent episode of her family’s hit reality show, The Kardashians, Kardashian says she thinks the pivotal lunar expedition was a hoax, citing a series of articles that, she claims, explain why some…
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.
Even if critics who call President Trump’s boat attacks “murder” are right as a matter of law, it would not be easy to get the matter into a court.
Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father JOHN BAVARO FINE ART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found…
