Scientific American Magazine

Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even re?veal subliminal thoughts

Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?

A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing

An astonishingly sensitive detector of electric fields helps sharks zero in on prey

Why are climatologists so highly confident that human activities are dangerously warming the earth?

Large-scale agriculture would become more sustainable if major crop plants lived for years and built deep root systems

Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science