Scientific American Magazine

A genetic trait that protects against AIDS has now been uncovered, and others are emerging. The findings open entirely new avenuesfor developing preventives and therapies

Finding the sixth quark involved the world's most energetic collisions and a cast of thousands

With the help of recombinant DNA technology, researchers have learned how to create artificial pores that might be used to deliver drugs or act as biosensors to detect toxic chemicals

The secret of the basilisk lizard's strategy lies in its stroke

Researchers are showing how suggestion and imagination can create memories of events that did not actually occur

The lives of the Aztec common people were far richer and more complex than the official histories would have us believe

Though known for centuries, sound-producing sand remains one of nature's more puzzling phenomena