The Sciences

The first powered atmospheric flight on another planet will honor its roots with a payload drawn from the dawn of aviation itself

Science in meter and verse

Telescopes on the moon, the mathematics of connections, new hope for dark matter, and realistic mythical beings

Percolation theory illuminates the behavior of many kinds of networks, from cell-phone connections to disease transmission

Blood and the gut dominate cell turnover

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Letters to the editor from the December 2020 issue of Scientific American

Top news from around the world

Modern glass arrives; a canine workforce

Value neutrality among researchers is a myth that hurts the public trust of science

A new experiment could catch invisible particles that previous detectors have not

A tool built for astronomy finds new life combating space debris and enabling quantum encryption