Scientific American Magazine

Understanding the human factors that make people vulnerable to online criminals can improve both security training and technology

Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up

Winners and other images from the 2008 BioScapes Photo Competition use light microscopes to portray extraordinary images of biological specimens

Wrinkled landscapes and spouting jets on Saturn's sixth-largest moon hint at underground waters

At last, fossil and genetic findings elucidate the evolution of bats--and settle a long-standing debate over the origins of flight and echolocation

Understanding the human factors that make people vulnerable to online criminals can improve both security training and technology

Peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic hybrid of protein and DNA, could form the basis of a new class of drugs—and of artificial life unlike anything found in nature

Next-generation automotive safety technology could give us vehicles that are difficult to crash—and eventually may not need drivers at all