
After Launching the World’s Most Powerful Rocket, What’s Next for SpaceX?
Crewed flights of the Dragon spacecraft and preparations for the Big Falcon Rocket are on the agenda

After Launching the World’s Most Powerful Rocket, What’s Next for SpaceX?
Crewed flights of the Dragon spacecraft and preparations for the Big Falcon Rocket are on the agenda

Watch Live as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches Today
Whether a success or a failure, the first test flight of the world's current most powerful rocket guarantees fireworks


Olympic Clothing Designers Try to Beat the Cold with Technology
With electric self-warming jackets and new insulated fabrics, Team USA hopes to overcome record-setting chills

Physicists Harness Twisted Mathematics to Make Powerful Laser
High-quality beams could be among the first practical applications of the booming field of topological physics

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Will Attempt a Triple Landing
If successful, the rocket’s first test flight will include three boosters flying back to Earth

Are Autonomous Cars Really Safer Than Human Drivers?
Most comparisons between human drivers and automated vehicles have been at best uneven—and at worst unfair

How Many Gigs are You Wearing?
Magnetic clothing could be used to store passwords and other data

Proposed Space Station Aims for the Moon and beyond
The ambitious plan to send astronauts to lunar orbit has drawn skepticism

Buying into Nuclear Power; Selling American Cars in Japan; Advocating for Nitroglycerin
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

A Future for American Energy
At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about American's energy future.

Texas Got 18 Percent of Its Energy from Wind and Solar Last Year
For years critics have claimed grid costs and stability will spiral out of control before we hit 20 percent renewable energy. Texas is proving them wrong

Quantum Epistemology for Business
To truly understand data, we need to rethink what we mean by "measurement"