Stories by Clara Moskowitz

Engineering the Body: How Regenerative Medicine is Changing Disease

Medical researcher Molly Shoichet will tell three stories of novel ways scientists ar­­­e combatting stroke, blindness and cancer, in a live Webcast tonight at 7 p.m.  

Gravitational Waves Discovered from Colliding Black Holes

A daring set of experiments finally confirms Einstein's 1916 prediction of gravitational waves

Inside the World of Competitive Rubik's Cube Solving

And more new books for November 2016

Tangled Up in Spacetime

Hundreds of researchers in a collaborative project called “It from Qubit” say space and time may spring up from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information

An Astronaut Tells It Like It Is in New Book

And more October book recommendations from Scientific American

A Trippy Cosmic History Lesson: SA Editors Discuss Terrence Malick's "Voyage of Time"

How Quantum Computing Could Change Cybersecurity Forever [Video]

Quantum scientist Michele Mosca will discuss security in the coming quantum age during a live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M.

A Utopia with Caveats: Why Peace on Earth Might Require Big Sacrifices

An interview with Ada Palmer, author of the new science fiction novel Too Like the Lightning

Visions of the Future: Top Science Fiction New Releases

Our recommendations for five scientifically satisfying stories of what is to come

How a Seed Collection Could Save Humanity

And more new books for September 2016

50 Women Who Changed Science

And more new books for August 2016

Did the Universe Boot Up with a "Big Bounce?"

The cosmos may have rebounded from an earlier contraction and “big crunch” into a “big bang” that started it all over again

Doomed Spacecraft Shows Tantalizing Hints of Surprising Black Hole Behavior [Video]

Before it died barely a month after launch, the Hitomi spacecraft spied interesting effects of black holes on the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Gravitational Wave Observatory Finds More Colliding Black Holes

The second confirmation of ripples in spacetime is announced by astronomers at LIGO

Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics and two of them spoke with Scientific American's Clara Moskowitz about LIGO and the public's reaction.  

How Mistakes Help Science [Video]

Astrophysicist Mario Livio will discuss how famous thinkers’ blunders have played a vital role in research during a live Webcast tonight at 7 P.M.

Essays Celebrate the Centennial of America's National Parks

New Books for May 2016

Wanted: Gravitational Constant's True Value

Scientists from numerous disciplines will brainstorm new strategies for measuring "Big G" in July.  

Strange Supernovae are Driven by Magnetic Fields [Video]

Three animations model how strongly magnetized stars produce oddball stellar explosions

Hunt for Big Bang Gravitational Waves Gets $40-Million Boost

The nonprofit Simons Foundation will fund a new observatory to search for signs of stretching in the very early universe