Stories by The Editors

As another disturbing week in U.S. news draws to a close, join us for a live online chat with Maria Konnikova, a Scientific American blogger and Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Columbia University, who will apply Sherlock Holmes-ian logic to our mental messes

Join us for a live online chat with physicist Michael Tuts of Columbia University. Tuts will help us understand what this morning’s announcement about the Higgs means for physics

Planetary science is NASA's most successful and inspirational program. It should not be gutted

Join us for a live online chat with economist Meredith Rosenthal of Harvard's School of Public Health. Dr. Rosenthal will help us understand what's next following the ruling on health care

Need something to watch? Automated machine-learning systems break movies apart to help you find the best films

Rodenberg, who blogs about addiction and mental illness for SA, will provide the straight dope on the latest media frenzy over so-called bath salts and people who have been arrested for allegedly eating victims' flesh

Musser, who covers space for SA, will help us prepare to watch Tuesday's transit and explain the science behind this rare astronomical event

Zivkovic, a chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory, will answer your questions about a recent flurry of papers in the circadian rhythms field

Political attacks on Planned Parenthood pose a threat to the well-being of millions of women in the U.S.

While health officials wage a costly war on obesity and diabetes, taxpayers are subsidizing foods that make us fatter. It's time to rewrite the farm bill

A look at some of the most promising medical devices now in development

Temperature can dramatically change the properties of materials, as Yale University's Ainissa Ramirez shows

The federal government should fix or drop new regulations that throttle scientific study of America's heritage

Letters to the editor from the December 2011 issue of Scientific American

Join in at 10 P.M. ET to watch prominent scholars and thinkers discuss whether our instinct to form in-groups and out-groups is maladaptive in today's world

Custom software helps delineate connections between organisms and predicts how a given ecosystem would respond to change

Your senses bridge the boundary between you and the world

By letting mental afflictions go untreated, we consign millions of Americans to misery and put a drag on our economy

Why Eli Manning and Tom Brady will offer terrific physics demonstrations during the Super Bowl

Concussion in children is a serious problem that deserves more attention

As personal data move to the cloud, Congress needs to update privacy laws

Letters to the editor from the September 2011 issue of Scientific American