Introducing the February 2020 Issue
The mind’s social maps, the mystery of aerodynamic lift, killer robots, and more
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Introducing the January 2020 Issue
Scientific American kicks off its 175th anniversary year
Introducing the December 2019 Issue
Fire tornadoes, the black hole paradox, GPS under attack, and more
Introducing the November 2019 Issue
Time crystals, trickle-up economics, songbird diversity, and more
Science Communication: Truth, Lies and Uncertainty
The scientific process, as I have often said, is an engine of human prosperity. For centuries it has been a driving force behind the advances in knowledge and well-being that we've enjoyed as a species...
Special Report: What’s Next for the Arctic?
In 1894 John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh—who later went on to garner the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics—penned an appreciation in Scientific American about the work of John Tyndall, an Irish physics professor, mathematician, geologist, atmospheric scientist, public lecturer and mountaineer...
Science Symphony: Music of the Mind, Virus-Proof Cells and Apollo’s 50th
We live in a world of networks, write University of Pennsylvania physicist and MacArthur Fellow Danielle S. Bassett and Max Bertolero of Bassett's Complex Systems Group in this issue.
My Next Chapter
It was February 2001. I had just returned to Popular Science after my second daughter’s birth. Among the answering machine messages was one from another publication.
Science on the Hill: Solving the Plastic Waste Problem
On June 6, a panel of experts convened by Scientific American and Nature Research—part of Springer Nature—will talk about the issue and possible solutions in Washington, D.C...
Understanding through Time: Early Life, Climate and Vaccines
For fun, my husband and I have always followed the traditional themes for gifts marking significant wedding anniversaries, starting with paper, when he gave me a (still treasured) subscription to the New York Times ...
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