Departments

• Tuberculosis Waits Patiently for Its Comeback [Slide Show]

• A Cosmic Map of the Exoplanets [Interactive]

• The Global Citizens of Scientific American

• Why the West Fertilizer Explosion Could Have Happened Anywhere

• Astronomers Search for Signs of Life in the Skies of Distant Exoplanets

• When Animals Mourn

• It’s All Elementary: Decades of Insights from Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

• New Genetic Insights Show How Tuberculosis May Be Evolving to Become More Dangerous

• Scrabble Sends One Man Scrambling for Meaning

• 150 Years Ago: Sleep Technology

• People Kill with Guns More Than Any Other Weapon

• Letters

  Readers Respond to "Mission: Risk Averse"

• Advances

  Prickly Painkiller

• James Cameron Donates His Tricked Out Ocean Sub to Science

• Produce-Loving Pests

• Satellite Surveillance Could Protect Heritage Sites

• Why Google Glass May not Be Ready for Prime Time

• Microscopic Hunters Prey on Yellowstone’s Wolves

• Frothy Physics: The Math of Foams

• Patent Granted for a Buoy That Generates Power

• A Documentary Explores How We Talk to Ourselves

• Scientists Discover a Bug with Giant Genital Pincers

• By The Numbers

• A Star's Last Breath

• IBM Creates the World’s Tiniest Movies

• Forum

  The Next Big Thing in Wearable Gadgets Is Very Small

• The Science of Health

  How Much Do CT Scans Increase the Risk of Cancer?

• TechnoFiles

  Software Recognition Technology Is Amazing, but Not Amazing Enough

• Recommended

  Recommended: Thinking in Numbers

• Recommended: People, Parasites and Plowshares

• Recommended: Rocket Girl

• Recommended: The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics

• Skeptic

  How Beliefs in Extraterrestrials and Intelligent Design Are Similar