Doc's YA Novel Treats Life-and-Death Issues
Pediatric cardiologist Ismée Williams discusses her young adult novel, Water in May, about a teenage girl whose newborn has a life-threatening heart condition.
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Dinosaurs: From Humble Beginnings to Global Dominance
Edinburgh University paleontologist Steve Brusatte talks about his May 2018 Scientific American article, "The Unlikely Triumph of the Dinosaurs," and his new book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World.
Readers Respond to the January 2018 Issue
Letters to the editor from the January 2018 issue of Scientific American
Debunking Animal Myths, the Truth about Time and Other New Science Books
The latest book recommendations from Scientific American
Africa: Future Worldwide Science Hub
Thierry Zomahoun, president of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, talks about the potential and needs of science on the continent.
Humans Evolved but Are Still Special
Brown University biologist and author Ken Miller talks about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness and Free Will.
Culture Shapes Kids' Views of Nature
In a study of children interacting with toy animals Native American kids and non-Native kids imagined the animals very differently.
The Ultimate Dinosaur Biography, a Cosmological Caper and Other New Science Books
The latest book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
The Number of Americans with No Religious Affiliation Is Rising
The rise of the atheists
Culture Shapes How Children View the Natural World
Native American kids and non-Native kids conceptualize wild animals differently
13,000-Year-Old Footprints under West Coast Beach
Several feet below a beach in British Columbia, archaeologists discovered soil trampled by human feet—the oldest footprints found so far in North America. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Readers Respond to the December 2017 Issue
Letters to the editor from the December 2017 issue of Scientific American
A Brain Deprived of Memory
Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.
Stephen Hawking: 3 Publications That Shaped His Career
A pop culture icon and ground-breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science. Nature Video explores three of the publications that shaped his career and his legacy. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 13, 2018. It is a Nature Video production.
New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages
Nomadic horse riders likely opened a “steppe bridge” between Europe and Asia, but recent genetic data raise more questions
How People Talk Now Holds Clues about Human Migration Centuries Ago
Researchers are analyzing dialects and historical records to unravel the formation of a Creole language
The Women Who Made the Internet and Other Stories
The latest book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Readers Respond to the November 2017 Issue
Letters to the editor from the November 2017 issue of Scientific American
Big Cities Have Fewer Tweeters Per Capita
But those who do tweet in big cities are more prolific—tweeting more often, on average, than their small-town counterparts. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age.
