The SciencesMay 1, 2014
Book Review: The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
Books and recommendations from Scientific American
History of Science
The SciencesMay 1, 2014
L.S.B. Leakey on the Distant Past; H. G. Wells on the Near Future
Innovation & discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American
May Issue: Your Heart in Flames. Read Now!
Mind & BrainMay 1, 2014
One of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s Neglected Manuscripts Has Helped Solve Long-standing Mathematical Mysteries
Mathematician Ken Ono has solved long-standing puzzles using insights hidden in the unpublished papers of Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan
The SciencesMay 1, 2014
Statistician David J. Hand Shows How the Seemingly Improbable Becomes a Sure Thing
There are so many things in heaven and earth that coincidences become certainties
The SciencesMay 1, 2014
The “Crisis” in Scientific Results Is a Matter of Biology
Biology is making it harder for scientists to reproduce one another's experiments
May 1, 2014
Happy 90th Birthday, Evelyn Boyd Granville!
Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, turns 90 today (May 1, 2014). I first heard her name in a talk by Patricia Kenschaft about African American mathematicians.
April 25, 2014
Women of the Periodic Table Quilt
The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual spectacle of more than 150 science-related events and activities taking place in and around Cambridge, Mass.
The SciencesApril 25, 2014
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
The SciencesApril 25, 2014
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
April 24, 2014
Charles Darwin and the Early Search for Extraterrestrial Life
In August 1881 the journal “Science” published an article with a letter exchange by two amateur geologist – British Charles R.
History of ScienceApril 23, 2014
What Shakespeare Knew about Science [Excerpt]
William Shakespeare may well have been more aware of his era’s science—including the Copernican view that the planets revolve around the sun—than has generally been thought
The SciencesApril 23, 2014
Why Prejudice Alone Doesn't Explain the Gender Gap in Science
This is a guest post from my friend Chris Martin. Chris (chriscmartin.com) studied psychology and music at Davidson College, human-computer interaction at Georgia Tech, and psychology at the College of William and Mary.