Culture

Special Apollo 11–themed recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Swedish designer Jan Klingler has garnered attention for his stunning lighting featuring bacteria

The fantasy series highlights profound questions of philosophy and psychology

Murray Gell-Mann, 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics who identified the quark, died May 24th.

It’s a mélange of chemistry, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, flavored with a big dollop of regional pride

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

It’s not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological

Growing up in a home filled with books enhances enhances intellectual capacity in later life, even if you don't read them all.

The residue of ancient urine can reveal the presence of early stationary herder-farmer communities.

They appear across times and cultures—and our fascination with them may have both evolutionary and paleontological origins

A new study suggests young dogs were frequently buried with humans in China some 3,000 years ago, but the precise reasons remain elusive

In his memoirs, the womanizing writer Giacomo Casanova described suffering several bouts of gonorrhea—but researchers found no trace of the microbe on his handwritten journals. Karen Hopkin reports.