TechnologySeptember 25, 2015
Aircraft Communication, 1915
History of Science
The SciencesSeptember 24, 2015
9,000-Year-Old Decapitated Skull Found under Amputated Hands
The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World
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The SciencesSeptember 18, 2015
Teenage Clockmaker Upholds Long Scientific Tradition
As Daniel Boorstin, former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of History, once put it, clockmakers were the "pioneer scientific instrument makers"
The SciencesSeptember 18, 2015
Bigger Guns, 1915
The SciencesSeptember 17, 2015
Einstein in the Wild: We Found Him [Slide Show]
Readers across the globe sent us photos of the rock star scientist
The SciencesSeptember 17, 2015
Ig Nobel Prizes Mark a Quarter Century of Irreverent Science Humor
From levitating a live frog with magnets to a study of soggy cereal, awards foster enlightenment through laughter
EnvironmentSeptember 8, 2015
Obama Has Done More for Clean Energy Than You Think
The Great Recession enabled bold steps to seed a clean-energy revolution
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2015
100 Years of General Relativity: Scientific American Special Issue
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2015
Copernicus, Darwin and Freud: A Tale of Science and Narcissism
Freud did not originate his famous description of Copernicus and Darwin as deflators of humanity's anthropomorphic world-view.
The SciencesAugust 31, 2015
Fears of Future Belligerence Should Not Derail Iranian Nuclear Deal
While many provisions of the proposed agreement expire after 15 years, the dynamics of the Middle East are shifting too quickly to predict what lies in store
The SciencesAugust 31, 2015
Terse Titles Cited
Scientific papers with shorter titles receive more citations than those with long-winded headings
The SciencesAugust 28, 2015
Quantum 'spookiness' passes toughest test yet
A cunning experiment plugs loopholes in previous demonstrations of quantum "spookiness," a concept that galled Einstein