The company that killed the electric car is ready to resuscitate it. General Motors (GM) this week laid out plans at the Washington (D.C.) Auto Show to prepare communities for the 2011 debut of its Chevy Volt and plug-in electric vehicles that other automakers are set to start building next year...
Take a trip through Scientific American's Worm Gallery and meet the charming, slinky creatures that turn your innards into their home sweet home
Take a trip through Scientific American's Worm Gallery and meet the charming, slinky creatures that turn your innards into their home sweet home
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
Spare parts mean more weight, more expense and less science. What if the redundancy worked differently?
You may never have heard of ecosystem services, but you'd be hard-pressed to live without them. David Biello reports
Feeling helpless leads us to see nonexistent patterns
Carbon dioxide may be acidifying seawater faster than thought
Pushing for drugs that are "benign by design," Europe is requiring environmental review of new medications
Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the content of the February issue, including naked singularities and the greenhouse hamburger. N.Y.U. journalism professor Jay Rosen discusses social media...
In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers announced the finding of the fossil remains of the largest snake that ever lived--possibly reaching 45 feet and 2,500 pounds. Steve Mirsky reports...
Could becoming a father after age 40 raise the risks that your children will have a mental illness?
Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases
Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases
Was last year's devastating China earthquake, which killed 80,000 people and left more than 5 million homeless, really just a tragic natural event? Speculation is growing that the magnitude-7.9 quake may have actually been triggered by the tremendous water weight behind a nearby dam...
Arsenic removal from drinking water is a priority for local water authorities, given that long-term exposure has been linked to a host of serious health problems, including cancer, nervous system damage and atherosclerosis (inflammation) in the arteries leading to the brain...
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