Scientific American Magazine

An agency unprecedented in U. S. history will soon begin its task. Its most challenging responsibility will be to recruit able youths for work in basic science

In which chimpanzees raised in the dark shed light on the relationship between visual experience and visual development

The wild ancestor of the most important plant in America is lost in antiquity. Once it was thought to be the grass teosinte; now the evidence points to a primitive pop corn

The loose material of the earth's surface is in constant process of evolution. Its variety deeply influences the life of man

The devices that detect the ionizing radiations of the atom were invented some 40 years ago. Now they have become basic tools of the atomic age

The patient inbreeding of mice has done much to support the view that malignant growth is powerfully influenced by heredity and other genetic phenomena such as mutation

Can the accuracy of observation indefinitely be improved? What of the fundamental atomic and molecular uncertainties of the process?

An account of some curious preliminaries to mating among birds, insects and spiders, with particular reference to the influence of vision