The Brutalist Report

Scientific American

• Readers respond to the January 2026 issue [1h]
• How to build a space hotel [1h]
• New evidence links heart disease to inflammation—and drugs can stop it [1h]
• How two mathematicians solved a cryptography mystery [1h]
• How chemists engineer the signature smells of luxury perfumes [1h]
• The engineering marvels hidden inside six-figure watches [1h]
• Expensive versus affordable binoculars—what’s the difference? [1h]
• How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight [1h]
• A hot pair of supplements, creatine and methylene blue dye, may not work together [1h]
• Unlikely paths to discovery [1h]
• The baffling ecological disaster that's killing America’s freshwater mussels [1h]
• Poem: ‘How I Became a Spitfire Pilot during My Cataract Operation’ [1h]
• DARPA built an AI to fact-check enemy weapons claims [1h]
• Mathematicians created an ‘impossible’ shape that shouldn’t exist [1h]
• How cosmic rays are helping mining companies find critical minerals underground [1h]
• Science crossword: Hot stuff [1h]
• An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why [1h]
• Math puzzle: A disassembly job [1h]
• May 2026: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago [1h]
• Imperiled ‘cloud jaguar’ spotted in Honduran mountains for the first time in a decade [15h]
• Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling [19h]
• Dream Chaser space plane faces uncertain future in NASA’s push for the moon [21h]