Scientific American Magazine

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy made the goal to be first on the moon a matter of national honor. But were the Soviets truly in the running?

By creating ultralarge atoms, physicists hope to study how the odd physics of the quantum world becomes the classical mechanics of everyday experience

The neural routes underlying the formation of memories about primitive emotional experiences, such as fear, have been traced

Technology developed during the cold war is giving new capabilities to ground-based stronomical telescopes

Some 3,800 years ago Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke and Taukachi-Konkan were carefully laid-out urban centers that housed many hundreds of people

Novel experiments, such as training bees to respond to sounds and recruiting them using a robot, have ended several debates surrounding the dance language

Medicinal plants discovered by traditional societies are proving to be an important source of potentially therapeutic drugs

From just a snippet of DNA, geneticists can sometimes forecast a patient's health. But ethical problems surrounding this testing are as ominous as the diseases themselves