The SciencesJanuary 1, 2012
Readers Respond to "Bigger Cities Do More with Less" and Other Articles
Letters to the editor from the September 2011 issue of Scientific American
Archaeology
EnvironmentDecember 14, 2011
Some Species Face "Move or Die" Scenario under Climate Change
Birds, snakes and other species must shift ranges to adapt to climate change
GET 44% OFF UNLIMITED SUBSCRIPTIONS. SAVE NOW!
TechnologyDecember 1, 2011
DNA Experts and Forensic Genealogists Team Up to Solve Alaskan Mystery
New fingerprint- and DNA-identification techniques solve a mystery from a 60-year-old plane crash
TechnologyNovember 28, 2011
Pilots Brave Snow, Grizzlies to Find 1948 Plane Wreckage
Half a century after Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 slammed into the side of 4,950-meter Mount Sanford in eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, killing all 30 men on board, commercial pilots Kevin McGregor and Marc Millican found the wreckage embedded in a glacier.
The SciencesNovember 25, 2011
Audio Slide Show: Pilots Scale Alaska Glacier to Find Wreckage of Northwest Airlines Flight 4422
ArchaeologyNovember 23, 2011
Archaeology Research in Egypt Struggles to Restart
As the country struggles to refashion its government, archaeologists are looking warily towards the future.
EvolutionNovember 23, 2011
Ancient Egyptian Chariot Leather Pieces Rediscovered
Forgotten drawers in Egyptian museum yield 'astonishing' leather find.
The SciencesNovember 16, 2011
December 2011 Briefing Memo
EvolutionNovember 16, 2011
Did a Giant Impact Usher in Dinosaurs, Not Just Take Them Out?
Did a giant impact 200 million years ago trigger a mass extinction and pave the way for the dinosaurs?
EvolutionNovember 16, 2011
Ancient Moth Sported a Green Sheen
Analysis of fossilized wing scales suggests insect used bright hues to warn off predators.
EnvironmentNovember 10, 2011
U.S. East Coast Tsunami Risk Investigated with Sonar
A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf revealed steep escarpments that probably pose no tsunami hazard
EvolutionNovember 8, 2011
Artificial Intelligence Finds Fossil Sites
Palaeontologists use computer neural network and satellite images to work out where to dig.