Aerospace

Self-piloting quadcopters make more sense than an airplane–automobile hybrid—but safety and logistics problems remain

If anything's alive on the ice-covered ocean world of Europa, a future NASA mission hopes to find it.

This week powerful radio waves will disturb the ionosphere to probe satellite disruptions and create strange glows

A movement to privatize Earth-observing satellites is gaining ground

Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain initiative and more.

Barbara Kiser, books and arts editor at Nature, talks about her favorite science books of 2016, especially three works about the little-known history of women mathematicians.

In a Christmas tradition, the defense organization NORAD helps us keep track of Santa as he zips around the world delivering toys.

He hasn't said much, but his influence on the industry could be profound

NOAA storm scientists describe their harrowing trips into a swirling chaos of rain, dust, salt and bacteria

Gauntlet is now thrown down to maritime and land transportation

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 30, 1916