Evolution
Hanging with Scientists at the Bottom of the Grand Canyon
Boating through the Grand Canyon brings one face-to-wallface with geologic time
Stories by Steve Mirsky
Biology
They Do What?!: The Wide Wild World of Animal Sex
Carin Bondar talks about her new book Wild Sex, which covers the strange, surreal and sometimes scary sex lives of our animal cousins.
Conservation
World Wilderness Down 10 Percent in 20 Years
South America and central Africa lost the most wilderness in a decline since the 1990s that saw the planet's wild areas down by a tenth
Behavior
The Trainable Cat Is a Guide to the Hows and Whys of Focusing Your Feline
A new book touts training your tabby
Biology
Big Bang of Body Types: Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond
David Epstein talks about his 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance and his recent Scientific American article "Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber Legs at the Brave New Olympics." ...
Evolution
Grand Canyon Rapids Ride for Evolution Education
Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall-face with striking examples of geologic and evolutionary processes...
Behavior
Author Mary Roach Looks at “the Curious Science” of the Military
Military science goes way beyond missile trajectories
Policy
The Science of Soldiering: Mary Roach's Grunt
Best-selling science writer Mary Roach talks about her latest book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.
Conservation
Vaccinate Prairie Dogs to Save Ferrets
As was widely reported on social media, the U.S. is indeed going to use aerial drones to spread vaccine-laced pellets among prairie dogs to save endangered ferrets, although, contrary to some reports, no M&Ms will be involved...
Evolution
Evolution Ed Defenders Make Rapids Progress in Grand Canyon
The National Center for Science Education's annual Colorado River trip through the Grand Canyon highlights the differences between the scientific and creationist outlooks.
Biology
Making the Case That Animals Are Impressively Smart
The world is brimming with brainy beings
Public Health
Drowsy Driving Kills 6,400 Americans Annually
Charles Czeisler, director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, talked about the dangers of drowsy driving at a recent Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Forum called Asleep at the Wheel. ...
Biology
Electric Eels versus Horses: Shocking but True
Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking horses...
Conservation
Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked
Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state-of-the-art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health...
Space & Physics
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...
Environment
Arctic Researcher Bears Up for Science
Wildlife researcher Joel Berger dons a polar bear outfit to study the reactions of musk oxen to the threat of bears increasingly driven onto the land for food.
Culture
The Documentary Fastball Tosses Some Physics at Fans
A movie about baseball's primary pitch is a hit
Space & Physics
Sean M. Carroll Looks at The Big Picture
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Dutton, 2016)
Evolution
Gorillas Hum and Sing While They Eat to Say, "Do Not Disturb"
Our gorilla cousins sing as they supper
Space & Physics
Everything There Is
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about the necessary connections among the various ways we have of describing the universe.
