
Famous for Being Fatuous: Celebs and Pols Say the Darnedest ThingsEspecially about Science
If the recent election season has taught us anything, it's that fame does not equal brains, at least when it comes to science
If the recent election season has taught us anything, it's that fame does not equal brains, at least when it comes to science
The bankruptcy of photovoltaic panel-maker Solyndra is actually good news for the U.S. solar industry
In his new book, award-winning biologist and author Nathan Wolfe examines the origins and spread of viruses around the globe
Rates of violent deaths have declined, but psychologist Robert Epstein argues in this review that it is too early to praise human nature's "better angels."
Stand aside "Watson": We have triumphed over the machine
Some friends of Scientific American wrote to us expressing their appreciation of the life of one of the great inventors and technology visionaries. Here are some of their thoughts and reflections...
The illness that ultimately felled Apple founder Steve Jobs often kills shortly after diagnosis
Fermilab finds the top quark—sort of
Finding the sixth quark involved the world's most energetic collisions and a cast of thousands
The nose really might "know" good from bad, even before the brain does
Scott Patterson's book The Quants profiles the quantitative-minded investors who helped inflate the hedge fund bubble
Excerpts from a new book reveal the "geo-architecture" of New York City
A new detailed picture of the biological consequences of the global weight problem, as visualized by the scientifically tuned illustrations of theVisualMD
In this excerpt from the new book Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (Harper Collins, 2011), you'll learn why, although it's true that scientists sometimes have been wrong, that doesn't mean there are no rules--or that everything is possible...
Predicting pandemics might still be impossible, but with millions of lives at stake, researchers are using the latest science and lessons from history to best prepare for the next big one...
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