In the world of biology, scientists are quickly exploring the ins and outs of a mysterious idea known as the “third state,” a ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

The culture-clash western follows a Mexican gunslinger exploring his family's ancestral home in France's Cevennes mountain range.

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

II. The silhouette of a teenager slumps, head bowed, before an enormous desk with a “Guidance Counselor” nameplate. “You ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Scientific American magazine made its second presidential endorsement in its history, backing Vice President Kamala Harris.

A top science magazine has waded into the political sphere after making a presidential endorsement, only the second in its ...

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d ...

What Scientific American is doing is a disgrace. When the last shreds of its credibility disappear and its readership inevitably declines, it will have only itself to blame.

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