Scientific American Magazine

Deluged with superfluous responses to online queries, users will soon benefit from improved search engines that deliver customized results

Is the decline of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium living in the human stomach since time immemorial, good or bad for public health?

Innovation is alive and kicking on campus

Magnetic fi elds on a microchip can produce tiny, coherent clouds of atoms called Bose-Einstein condensates. The chips could have uses in ultraprecise sensors for aircraft and in quantum computing

Some moments become lasting recollections while others just evaporate. The reason may involve the same processes that shape our brains to begin with

Talismans of a thousand graduate projects may soon make their way into electronic memories

A spectacular find in Indonesia reveals that a strikingly different hominid shared the earth with our kind in the not so distant past