Culture
Sometimes Science Is Wrong
Research is a self-correcting process, but that fact is often lost on the public
Stories by Michael D. Lemonick
Public Health
Coronavirus News Roundup: October 17–October 23
Here are pandemic highlights for the week
Behavior
Those Precautions for Avoiding the Coronavirus May Seem Extreme, But ...
That’s the wrong way to think about them
Culture
A Vision of Ephemeral Ice
Artist Shoshannah White views the endangered Arctic ice through a unique lens
Culture
Chemistry Can Be More Fun than You Think
A first-year college student has rebooted the periodic table of the elements in a whimsical and compelling way
Climate Change
An Open Letter Endorsing the Global School Strike for Climate
More than 240 scientists have already signed a document supporting students around the world in their demand for bold action to make sure the world they grow up in is livable
Space & Physics
Requiem for a Revolutionary Space Probe
The Kepler Mission introduced us to a dazzling array of solar systems
Biology
The Magic of the Microscopic World
Biologist and teacher Carrie Norin uses photography to reveal the unseen beauty around us
Neuroscience
A Brain Deprived of Memory
Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American , talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love , about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain...
Policy
Women in Science are a Force of Nature
Cast your vote for the unsung and insufficiently sung female heroes of science for a celebratory poster series from the Perimeter Institute
Space & Physics
Inflating the Universe with Prize-Winning Cosmologist David Spergel
This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background—the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe’s infancy...
Space & Physics
Neutron Star Collisions Create Gold
Astrophysicists searching for gravitational waves have finally learned what happens when you crash two neutron stars together--and it's very, very shiny.
Space & Physics
Gravitational Waves: A Love Song
Science songwriter Adam Sakellarides strikes again
Culture
The Art of Science
A printmaker takes on the greatest scientific questions of the 21st century
Cognition
Forget Me Not: The Harrowing Tale of H. M.'s Brain [Excerpt]
Michael D. Lemonick explains how a postmortem study of the most celebrated amnesic in history went awry
Climate Change
An Open Letter from Scientists to President-Elect Trump on Climate Change
More than 800 Earth scientists and energy experts (and counting) urge the incoming president to take six crucial steps
Space & Physics
Hidden “Planet X” Could Orbit in Outer Solar System
In the far reaches of the solar system, a hidden planet larger than Earth may be lurking
Culture
Say It with Einstein
You know the physicist—now meet the emoji
Space & Physics
Watch It, Jupiter--Juno Knows What You're up to
The actual space mission is amazing, but the mythology behind it is kind of racy
Space & Physics
The Real Truth about Hillary, UFOs and Area 51
Scientific American's Clara Moskowitz explains things to Chris Matthews on Hardball
