Scientific American Magazine

In the Gulf of Mexico, a region famous for its many oil and gas fields, most of the petroleum flowing into the ocean leaks naturally from fissures in the seabed

A desert impact site demonstrates the wrath of rocks from space

Caught on camera, the fireball that streaked across Arctic skies last December appeared to move too fast for anything from this solar system. A month long expedition on this island of ice hunted for remains--and answers

Gluons, which hold protons together, can also clump into globs of pure glue

The principles of evolution by natural selection are finally beginning to inform medicine

Spiders have evolved intriguing behaviors to woo their occasionally cannibalistic mates

Computer modeling reveals how water affects the structures and dynamics of biological molecules such as proteins, yielding clues to their functions

Although the technology is ubiquitous today, magnetic recording had a sluggish start. The underlying science was something of a mystery, applications were slow to emerge, and business and politics stifled development