Stories by Josh Fischman

The power packs drive mobile phones, laptops, electric cars and solar panels

A new book shows off spectacular works of art inspired by mathematical principles

Three scientists sped up evolutionary changes in the lab to make cleaner fuels and cancer drugs

Dogs beat their domesticated rivals, cats, in a new attempt to measure cognitive power

Three scientists developed microscope methods that use electrons and cold temperature to reveal tiny details of life’s machinery

Thursday night's quake, near an undersea crust collision zone, was the strongest to hit Mexico in a century

Jellyfish manipulate physics to become the most efficient animals moving in the sea

California Gov. Jerry Brown gives strategy tips at huge research meeting; some scientists think there are opportunities they can seize

A new seafloor microscope is revealing life-and-death battles between hair-thin creatures

Here are treatments that have been well-studied, and the evidence for how well they work—or do not

A trio who built motors and devices a fraction the size of a human hair has set the stage for a new type of industry

Two scientists describe attempts to find genes that help endangered crops survive rising salt levels

How many active volcanoes does the U.S. have? Where is sea level rising the fastest? These 10 questions test your risk savvy

Heavy rainstorms, tied to global warming, will not send gravelly, stony rivers raging over the landscape

The effective swimming motions of jellyfish inspire submarine design and medical diagnotics

Jellyfish manipulate physics to become the most efficient animals moving in the sea

This region, where the ground beneath the Pacific is shoving underneath South America, produced the biggest earthquake ever recorded—and built the Andes

As plastic used in modern art degrades, scientists turn to nanotechnology to put it back together

Researchers explain how they tied a period of fierce, extensive volcanic activity to a terrible extinction that nearly wiped all life off our planet

Scientific American's Josh Fischman talks with renowned astrophysicist and general relativity expert Kip Thorne about the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO Project, co-founded by Thorne.
 

State of the art help for chronic sinus infections

The seventh row of the periodic table is now complete

Scientists discuss how agriculture and irrigation are changing underground water flows, rerouting them through contaminated ground

Individual countries may protect migratory birds but the great length of their journeys are endangered