Scientific American Magazine

The physical, strategic and moral discussion of the last two issues is continued. In this article: the question of whether the weapon enhances our military security

Perhaps two thirds of the cases of human infertility are chargeable to men rather than women. Some recent studies have revealed a few interesting reasons why

The void of the ancient Greek philosophers has become the essential medium of subtle processes in modern science and technology

The traditional view of the architecture of continents and ocean floors is in process of being revised by some resourceful new methods of probing beneath the surface

Concerning the author's instructive genus of mechanical tortoises. Although they possess only two sensory organs and two electronic nerve cells, they exhibit "free will"

The musical patterns produced by various species on a summer night are made visible in traces produced by the sound spectrograph

The famed Greek philosopher is recognized as one of the great early zoologists. But what about his reputation as a physicist?

The microscopic green globe that dwells in ponds is a significant member of the evolutionary line between the one-celled and many-celled organisms