Scientific American Magazine

The psychology of U. S. soldiers was thoroughly explored during the war. The findings suggest some rich leads for peacetime social research

Two investigators at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for an unusual partnership of chemistry and biology

From it is being forged a new tool for the analysis of social and economic behavior. The new approach already has shown its superiority to classical economic theory

The historic method of propulsion is also the most modern. The central problem is fuel, the development of which may presently liberate man from the earth

Like animal hormones, they achieve powerful effects at a distance from their point of origin. Presenting a review of how they have been studied and applied

Do they express the dreamer's irrational strivings, as Freud contended? Not necessarily, says a modern analyst, suggesting a new interpretation of them

The missing snakes of Ireland, the peat of the English Channel and the fishes of Great Salt Lake are among the biogeographer's clues to the events of the Pleistocene

They hold one of the world's great collections of oil. The studies of a practical process for extracting it are making encouraging progress