Scientific American Magazine

Researchers are racing to fortify the embattled cacao tree and to meet increasing demand for cocoa made from its seeds

Football players diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease may suffer from the effect of repeated blows to the head, controversial new research says

Studies of the bed bug's bizarre biology have revealed potential vulnerabilities

Oldweather.com is one of a handful of online initiatives that marshals the general public to help scientists with cutting-edge research

What the journey of a handful of dust tells us about our fragile planet

An experiment going up outside of Chicago will attempt to measure the intimate connections among information, matter and spacetime. If it works, it could rewrite the rules for 21st-century physics

Chemist Joanna Aizenberg mines the deep sea and the forest wetlands for nature's design secrets and uses them to fashion new materials that may change the world

Evidence shows that screening does more harm than good. Now what?

Scientists are finding that the placenta is far more than a passive filter