
Facebook Users Value the Service More Than Investors Do
Users of the social network said they'd require payment of more than $1,000 to quit the platform for one year. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Facebook Users Value the Service More Than Investors Do
Users of the social network said they'd require payment of more than $1,000 to quit the platform for one year. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Meet the Real Ravenmaster
Christopher Skaife talks about his new book The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, in front of a live audience at Caveat, “the speakeasy bar for intelligent nightlife" in Lower Manhattan.


Germs of Genius—a Masterpiece’s “Microbiome” Can Spell Its Demise
But microbes living on canvases may also help preserve irreplaceable works of art

How Scientific American Helps Shape the English Language
The magazine is more widely cited than the King James Version of the Bible by the Oxford English Dictionary

100 Years after an Epidemic, a Scientific Guide to Alien Life and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Scientists and Artists Must Work Together
We need to engage people emotionally, not just intellectually, to address the plight of the planet

Artists Strive to Make Climate Impacts “Visceral”
Art that provokes emotions can complement climate science

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
Pulitzer Priz​e–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 2.

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 1.

The Foreigners at Your Thanksgiving Table
Many of the "American" foods we love came from parts of the world Pres. Trump has vilified

An Uncanny Display: Algorithmic Art at the Whitney Museum
A new show looks back over a half century of this surprisingly robust genre

How Have Plants Shaped Human Societies?
We still know very little, but a new project called the Plant Humanities Initiative aims to change that