Scientific American Magazine

The Red Planet is no dead planet

By embracing the inevitability of system failures, recovery-oriented computing returns service faster

Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations--and maybe livestock and humans

The Standard Model of particle physics is at a pivotal moment in its history: it is both at the height of its success and on the verge of being surpassed

In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity. Cloning inspires similar fears

A study of chain letters shows how to infer the family tree of anything that evolves over time, from biological genomes to languages to plagiarized schoolwork