Scientific American

INTERACTIVE IQ TEST MAY BETTER PREDICT REAL-WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

A click-and-drag version of a common intelligence assessment more closely resembles real problem-solving

SOLVING OUR PLASTIC PROBLEM

At Scientific American's third Science on the Hill event, experts from academia and the private sector met at the Rayburn House Office...

CHINA REVEALS SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS FOR NEXT SPACE STATION

Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behaviour and the birth of stars

THE QUANTUM INTERNET IS EMERGING, ONE EXPERIMENT AT A TIME

Breakthrough demonstrations using defective diamonds, high-flying drones, laser-bathed crystals and other exotica suggest practical,...

WHERE ARE ALL THE WORKING MOTHERS IN STEM?

Unfortunately, career vs. family is too often still seen as an either/or choice.

PACE OF HEAT RECORDS WILL PICK UP WITH WARMING

If greenhouse gases are not curbed, 60 percent of the world will set monthly records by century's end

4 MYTHS ABOUT TESTOSTERONE

Don't let sports competitions be shaped by misguided “T Talk”

ONE SMALL STEP BACK IN TIME

Half a century after Apollo 11, we remember how we achieved the impossible and why we need to do it again

MAPPING THE MISSION

Modern satellite imagery and 3-D modeling give us a new view of how Apollo 11 played out

SCIENCE SYMPHONY: MUSIC OF THE MIND, VIRUS-PROOF CELLS AND APOLLO'S 50TH

WHY SOME AMAZONIAN SOCIETIES SURVIVED AND OTHERS PERISHED AMID PRE-COLUMBIAN DROUGHTS

Confronting climate change, cultures with intensive, specialized land use were vulnerable. Those that endured cultivated multiple crops...

NEW SENSOR COULD DETECT ELECTRICAL FAILURES IN SHIPS OR BUILDINGS

A monitoring device could measure overall power consumption and identify critical malfunctions

HOW DOES INSULIN WORK IN OUR BODIES?

What is insulin and how do our bodies use it?

DOMESTICATION MADE DOGS' FACIAL ANATOMY MORE FETCHING TO HUMANS

Wolves lack the muscles that allow dogs to raise their eyebrows and make puppy dog eyes

PROPOSED ENERGY EFFICIENCY RULES COULD SLOW EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS

More efficient appliances and stricter building codes have driven significant declines in U.S. emissions to date

GENE INCREASES RISK FOR POT ADDICTION

First gene associated with cannabis abuse likely affects how people respond to the drug

IN THE WIGGLE OF AN EAR, A SURPRISING INSIGHT INTO BAT SONAR

It could lead to drones that fly like bats

WHICH SHOULD COME FIRST IN PHYSICS: THEORY OR EXPERIMENT?

Plans for giant particle accelerators of the future focus attention on how scientific discoveries are really made

NEW SPACE TELESCOPE WILL MAP THE UNIVERSE IN HIGH-ENERGY X-RAYS

A German-Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands...

THESE BIZARRE PARASITES GARDEN THEIR INSECT HOSTS

Be glad human STDs do not include this one