We already know that timing chemotherapy correctly can minimise side effects Paul Springett/Alamy They say timing is everything, and treating cancer may be no exception. Researchers have found that simply shifting when people with cancer receive immunotherapy drugs could improve their survival, adding to evidence that our body’s internal clocks influence how well cancer treatments…
December 9, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Astronomers Spot the Most Ancient Supernova Ever Observed Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years old By Clara Moskowitz edited by Claire Cameron NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope identified the source…
Ceramic roof tiles and tuff blocks excavated at an ancient building site in Pompeii Archaeological Park of Pompeii A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete. Pompeii, near the modern city of Naples,…
December 9, 2025 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron A. Martin UW…
Illustration of a sauropod, with inset showing pigmented structures in the skin as seen with an electron microscope Tess Gallagher Microscopic structures seen in the fossilised skin of a sauropod suggest that these giant dinosaurs may have been as brightly coloured as some birds. Tess Gallagher at the University of Bristol, UK, and her colleagues…
Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition when people bring their honeybees to the floral feast. When beekeepers truck their hives to a mass-blossoming event in upland Ireland to forage for nectar, local wild bees end up smaller than usual and focus on foraging for…
December 9, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm RFK, Jr., Questions Safety of Approved RSV Shots for Babies FDA officials are newly scrutinizing several approved therapies to treat RSV in babies despite the fact that these shots were shown to be safe in clinical trials By Tanya Lewis edited by Claire Cameron…
This year has brought many revelations about our ancient human relatives WHPics / Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and new ideas from the study…
It’s been almost a year since DeepSeek made a major AI splash. In January, the Chinese company reported that one of its large language models rivaled an OpenAI counterpart on math and coding benchmarks designed to evaluate multi-step problem solving capabilities, or what the AI field calls “reasoning.” DeepSeek’s buzziest claim was that it achieved…
Technology reporter Karen Hao started reporting on artificial intelligence in 2018, before ChatGPT was introduced, and is one of the few journalists to gain access to the inner world of the chatbot’s creator, OpenAI. In her book Empire of AI, Hao outlines the rise of the controversial company. In her research, Hao spoke to OpenAI…
