Stories by The Editors

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NASA’s new space station mission is not a big step toward Mars, but mostly a holding pattern
 

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

When employers forbid paid time off for illness, infectious workers spread disease and hurt business

Nimoy inspired many members of the Scientific American community, some of whom offer remembrances here

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Misguided lawmakers can hurt the economy as well as science

Letters to the editor from the October 2014 issue of Scientific American

In early January, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti noticed that our video “What Happens to Your Body after You Die?” had 466,000 views on YouTube.

“Geoengineering” our climate sounds like an idea from the mind of Dr. Strangelove, but tests of the methods may save us from disaster

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Investigators heed lessons learned from downed Malaysian aircraft earlier this year

World events left many marks and losses in 2014, but Scientific American readers kept calm and carried on for the most part, as your top picks among the stories we published this year reveal.

Blogs have been part of the media ecosystem for more than a decade now, but news outlets are still wrestling with how to best incorporate them into their operations.

A deadly infection, a comet success, a climate-change breakthrough—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as selected by SA's editors

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Wearing small recording devices could reduce violent confrontations, but without careful planning and better research, the attempt could backfire

Technology is shaping our thinking about mental abilities and their improvement

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Enough physicians have substance abuse problems to make random drug testing a needed part of medical practice

An M.I.T.-led collaboration wants to show that programmable matter is no longer hypothetical—it is ready for commercial development

The chronic complaint

What is time? The answer varies from society to society

It has a host of surprising properties, although it is not necessarily “lucky” in the usual sense of the word