Scientific American Magazine

New evidence of ancient ingenuity forces scientists to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking outside the box

A devastating disease is killing citrus trees from Florida to California

All stars are born in groups but then slowly disperse into space. A new theory seeks to explain how these groups form and fall apart or, in rare cases, persist for hundreds of millions of years

Thousands of robotic insects will take to the skies in pursuit of a shared goal

Smallpox may be gone, but its viral cousins—monkeypox and cowpox—are staging a comeback

Cops can collect DNA when making an arrest, sometimes before charging a person with a crime. This practice poses a threat to the civil liberties of innocent people

A bottlenose named Winter lost her tail to a crab trap. So scientists built her a new one