
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

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

What Linguistics Can Tell Us about Talking to Aliens
Linguist Sheri Wells-Jensen explains the pitfalls in our assumptions about extraterrestrials


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.

Readers Respond to the June 2018 Issue
Letters to the editor from the June 2018 issue of Scientific American

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.

A Pioneering Female Scientific Illustrator, Rediscovered
Orra White Hitchcock’s elegant 19th-century geologic drawings shine at the American Folk Art Museum

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

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