The Hudson River is basically Scientific American's backyard, so when we heard the space shuttle Enterprise was heading up the river to its final resting place aboard the USS Intrepid on Manhattan's west flank, we couldn't resist firing up the video camera and grabbing a few shots...
Imagine for a moment that you have wings like an insect. One day, while you're buzzing through the air you hear the distant crack of a thunderstorm and suddenly you're assaulted from above...
An ant colony, made up of many thousands of individuals, actually functions more like one giant organism. Ants use their unified strength to build bridges, raft across rivers and even wage war on neighboring colonies (as scientist Mark Moffett explains in a recent Scientific American feature)...
As a filmmaker--albeit for the very small screen rather than the very large one--it was my supreme pleasure to interview legendary director Werner Herzog ( Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn ) about his latest film Cave of Forgotten Dreams ...
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night touched on topics that are near and dear to us at Scientific American , including technology, green energy sources, health care and innovation...
Not since the ancient days of alchemy have science and magic had such a harmonious relationship. Of course, I'm speaking specifically about neuroscience and the art of illusion—not the fictional conjuring of the Harry Potter variety...
Sure, we use stone in the construction of our buildings, in high-end kitchen countertops and the driveways where we park our cars, but our ancestor’s connection to terra firma was much more a relationship of necessity...
Medical science has known for some time that the direction of a bone fracture depends on how quickly the bone is compressed. If the bone is squeezed slowly, the break proceeds cross-wise...
The quiet, suburban neighborhoods and strip malls that line Route 128, the main highway that circumscribes the Greater Boston area, hardly betray the area's high-tech firepower.
At least two fundamental questions remain about the ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: how much oil has spilled and where exactly is it located?
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