Climate Change
Trouble Brewing? Climate Change Closes In on Beer Drinkers
Increasing droughts and heat waves could have a devastating effect on barley stocks—and beer prices
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Space & Physics
What Linguistics Can Tell Us about Talking to Aliens
Linguist Sheri Wells-Jensen explains the pitfalls in our assumptions about extraterrestrials
Culture
Readers Respond to the June 2018 Issue
Letters to the editor from the June 2018 issue of Scientific American
Medicine
Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
James P. Allison and and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery of inhibition of negative immune regulation, the basis of new drugs against cancer.
Space & Physics
Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise
Astrophysicist and sports data scientist Meredith Wills talks about why a subtle change in Major League baseballs may be behind the jump in home runs after 2014.
Culture
A Pioneering Female Scientific Illustrator, Rediscovered
Orra White Hitchcock’s elegant 19th-century geologic drawings shine at the American Folk Art Museum
Culture
Pirates Needed Science, Too
On International Talk Like a Pirate Day, here's an eye-patch-witness account of how science helps in all peg-leg walks of life, even piracy
Science News Briefs from Around the World
A few very brief reports about science and technology from around the globe.
The Environment’s New Clothes: Biodegradable Textiles Grown from Live Organisms
To combat the ill effects of “fast fashion,” designers look for more sustainable methods
Museum Digs Out a Future from Charred Scientific Ruins
Brazil’s tragic fire sends a wake-up call to neglected national museums worldwide
Biology
Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
Senior Editor Gary Stix talks about the September special issue of Scientific American , devoted to the science of being human. And Brown University evolutionary biologist Ken Miller discusses human chromosome 2 and what it tells us about us...
How to Build a Better Childhood
Design and architecture critic Alexandra Lange examines the material world we’ve created for children
Culture
A Brief History of How We Figured Out How Lava Happens: Melting the Earth
A very entertaining read on how we figured out how volcanoes actually work
Biology
Rescuing Ancient Art from Microbes
An effort to develop new products to conserve a collection of lithographs has revealed two new species of fungi
Culture
Essential Seaweed, the History of Cardiology, Neil deGrasse Tyson on Astrophysics and War and Other New Science Books
Book Recommendations from the Editors of Scientific American
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Readers Respond to the May 2018 Issue
Letters to the editor from the May 2018 issue of Scientific American
Culture
Why STEM Students Need Humanities Courses
The more science and technology dominate our culture, the more we need the humanities
Culture
Finding Your Own Way to Put the "A" in STEAM
Combining art and STEM can provide a relaxing outlet or a worthy challenge
Culture
Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion.
Prize-Winning Images of the Brain
Check out this year’s winners of The Art of Neuroscience competition
