Stories by Sarah Lewin Frasier

A Garden Grows in Space: First Zinnias Bloom, to an Astronaut's Delight

NASA’s Veggie program takes a big step forward in its goal to learn how to grow more complicated plants in space

Dying Star Destroys a Dwarf Planet

Astronomers witness a white dwarf star ripping worlds to pieces in real time

In Celebration of Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer

A Q&A with artist Sydney Padua, whose graphic novel illustrates the Victorian mathematician’s friendship with inventor Charles Babbage

Astronomers Spy Unexplained Ripples Racing through an Infant Solar System

Moving at 35,000 kilometers per hour, the mysterious waves could come from stellar flares or unseen planets

The Room with the Weakest Magnetic Field on Earth

Experiments in the chamber could answer these five questions

NASA Camera Snaps Stunning View of Earth and Moon [Video]

The Deep Space Climate Observatory watches our planet from more than a million kilometers away

Book Review: Genius at Play

Recommendations from Scientific American

Neptune's Strange Magnetic Field Stretches Arms in New Model [Video]

The field is 27 times more powerful than Earth’s and sits at an angle on the planet, changing chaotically as it interacts with the solar wind

A 100-Year Debate about the Eardrum Comes to an End

Why does the membrane look remarkably similar in mammals and reptiles?

Dams over the Decades

Did Dinosaurs Walk on Their Fingertips at One Point?

Modern-day alligators may illustrate how dinosaurs went from two-legged to four

New Mathematics Could Neutralize Pathogens That Resist Antibiotics

A “time machine” algorithm, backed by experimental data, reveals how to cycle drugs to reverse resistance

Book Review:Black Hole

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Instant Egghead: How do geysers erupt over and over?

Geologists release the most detailed data set yet on the explosive choreography between water and steam

Mother Plants Tell Their Seeds When to Sprout

Parents pass down “memories” of recent temperatures to prepare seed for incoming spring weather

Book Review: Invisible

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

CSI: Aliens--Astronomers Prep to Detect Cryptic Exoplanet Biosignals

Simulations and laboratory tests are compiling signs of familiar and unearthly life that could be visible in future telescopes

Drone-Snagging Drones, Popcorn Physics and More: Scientific American's May Issue

The Bird Family Tree Gets a Makeover

In the most thorough genomic investigation to date, some birds perch on new branches

Wet Is Better for Tonal Languages

Humid locales foster more languages with complex tones