SciAm editors invite all to attend the World Science Festival in New York City, from May 28 to June 1. The festival takes place throughout New York, from a beach in Queens to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan...
Scientists dissect the world's largest invertebrate; narwhals unseat polar bears as the most endangered mammal in the Arctic; introduced lizards underwent superfast evolution; and a new way to program robots that encourages them to improvise solutions to real-world problems...
Are video games linked to autism? Are we the only intelligent life in the galaxy? Is PETA's X Prize for artificial meat going to work?
In this week's episode of Scientific American 's weekly news video roundup: bad times might lead to good health, the misuses of the iPod as a unit of storage, decisions happen seven seconds earlier than you think, and hear a Neandertal speak!...
A haunting visualization of our CO2 emissions; turning those emissions into plastics; deadly nanotech socks and a war of two press releases.
Straight hair may seem easy to brush but it actually tangles more often than curly locks
Morgan Spurlock turned an extreme Big Mac attack into a public health wake-up call
Last week SciAm’s favorite podcaster and man-about-town Steve Mirsky, was back at it, behind the camera, checking out some old friends who’ve recently returned to the Bronx.
Missing sleep tonight may just boost your dreams tomorrow night.
Attention span and reasoning may get higher marks than intelligence, especially in math
Is it salvation from winter that puts us in the mood for love or is there a biological basis for this flurry of psychological renewal and physical energy?
Researchers say computers, using a mathematical formula, can determine the wishes of incapacitated patients as well as—if not better than—their kin
