Scientific American Content: Global

1. Missing pages of priceless missing Henry VIII–era manuscript finally found

   The pages come from a copy of Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ that once belonged to John Gage, an enforcer in Henry VIII’s court and a key figure in the historical

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2. Japan just hit a new longevity milestone

   More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old

3. T. rex was as warm-blooded as humans, new study finds

   The dinosaurs were once considered reptilian, but the new results suggest we may need to rethink their evolution

4. Trump’s surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier praises MMR and hepatitis B vaccines in Senate hearing

   Both the president and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have made numerous false claims about the vaccines’ efficacy and safety

5. Blood test shows promise in detecting pancreatic cancer early—a ‘holy grail’ for the field

   Pancreatic cancer is typically caught in its latest stages, when it is hardest to treat

6. Anthropic’s AI steals mathematicians’ record for most complicated curve

   A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

7. Vox’s Unexplainable explores Scientific American’s biggest unanswered science questions

   Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable to discuss the enduring mysteries that continue to challenge science

8. The hole in the ozone layer is healing, but extreme weather may be slowing progress down

   Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace

9. What even is an AI kill switch?

   Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it

10. How pizza can solve this unusual math puzzle

    Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of how the numbers in a sequence aren’t as clear-cut as

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