Scientific American Magazine

Zapping the brain with magnetic pulses while measuring its electrical activity is proving to be a reliable way to detect consciousness

From underneath Mount Saint Helens, a new picture of volcanic “plumbing” is emerging, with important clues for predicting deadly eruptions

Stocking rivers and lakes with game fish is good for anglers. But it is wreaking ecological havoc

New tactics for capturing floods and surviving droughts could help communities across California and the world

The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has seen hints of new particles that may point the way toward a higher theory of physics

Biofilms—3-D mats of bacteria—kill as many people as cancer does and fight off antibiotics. Now scientists are turning biofilms’ own weapons against them

A new, epic voyage through all known scales of reality charts the outer limits of existence, from the edge of the observable universe to the subatomic realm