Bananas, cacao and bee-pollinated crops are all threatened with collapse in part because of their monoculture management. When a biological or social system is full of uniform individuals—be they bean plants or banks—one shared weakness can spell disaster for the whole lot...
A University of Chicago Medical Center transplantation expert explains the ins and outs of liver transplant complications and Jobs's rare form of pancreatic cancer
Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the February 2011 issue of Scientific American
Machines can devise a hypothesis, carry out experiments to test it, and assess results--without human intervention
Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES
Here is a bit of what an estimated 140,000 attendees saw at last week's CES
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memory
General Motors offers a taste of its Electric Networked Vehicle at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show
Gadgets of all shapes and sizes are emerging that provide convenient, full-function access to communications, GPS, social networking and other information from wherever we are. Scientific American takes a look at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...
LAS VEGAS—Chief executives from some of the world's largest companies laid out the keys to developing the next generation of innovative technology during Friday's opening panel discussion here at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show...
LAS VEGAS—It's easy to poke fun at people so absorbed in their smart phones, tablets and other mobile technology that they're oblivious to anything outside the virtual world (stop signs, theater etiquette, live sporting events, children etc.)...
An important indicator species in the fossil record, ammonites played a major ecological role in their day, so figuring out what--and how--they ate should lead to a bounty of new knowledge about the ancient ocean...
Encouraged by the successes of the Xbox Kinect sensor and Windows 7, Microsoft's CEO assures the consumer electronics crowd that Windows's future is bright
Privacy concerns are overblown, even in our always connected world
UK Met Office is being held back by a lack of computing power, says its chief scientist Julia Slingo.
While we fret, some college students are busy creating the future
