ConsciousnessJanuary 5, 2024
The Strange and Beautiful Science of Our Lives
Nell Greenfieldboyce discusses her new book Transient and Strange, the intimacy of the essays and the science that inspired them.
Books
Book ReviewsJanuary 1, 2024
How the Moon Shaped Human History, from Religion to Climate
Lunar influences, parallel universes, taking over a dead relative’s online identity, and more books out now
May Issue: Your Heart in Flames. Read Now!
Book ReviewsJanuary 1, 2024
How to Escape a Time Loop You Don’t Really Want to Leave
A tender novel about savoring quantum memory
Book RecommendationsDecember 8, 2023
55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023
The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff read in 2023
EpidemiologyOctober 17, 2023
The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios’ new book The Black Angels chronicles the history of the nurses of Sea View Hospital and the cure for tuberculosis
Artificial IntelligenceSeptember 29, 2023
What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us
In Who Wrote This? linguist Naomi S. Baron discusses how artificial intelligence threatens our ability to express ourselves
Planetary ScienceSeptember 18, 2023
Ada Limón’s Poem for Europa, Jupiter’s Smallest Galilean Moon
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.
June 5, 2023
The First Two Botanists Who Surveyed, and Survived, the Colorado River
In an interview with Scientific American, author Melissa Sevigny discusses her book Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon