Scientific American Magazine

Recently Scientific American published "Misleading Math about the Earth," a series of essays that critized Bj¿rn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist. Here Lomborg offers his rebuttal.

Buying "green" products isn't enough to save biodiversity in the tropics. A plan for marketing conservation services may be the answer

Radio's oldest technology is providing a new way for portable electronics to transmit large quantities of data rapidly without wires.

A long-held idea about how atherosclerosis develops has been overturned, offering clues to fighting this deadly disease

Tabletop lasers focus light with the power of 1,000 Hoover Dams onto a tiny point for applications from physics and fusion research to medicine

Using recently discovered fossils and DNA analyses, scientists are at last unraveling the mysterious evolutionary history of whales

Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system.