Scientific American Magazine

Thanks to ingenious engineering, computers and appliances can now communicate through the electrical power wiring in a house

DNA microarrays could hasten the day when custom-tailored treatment plans replace a one-size-fits-all approach to medicine

Moons and resonances sculpt elegant, austere rings around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and maybe even Mars

We have entered the Century of the Environment, in which the immediate future is usefully conceived as a bottleneck: science and technology, combined with foresight and moral courage, must see us through it and out

The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals