Scientists themselves might benefit from reading Scientific American! In the July/August 2025 issue, there are two Advances ...

In the spring of 2024 Jeffery DelViscio (seen freezing above), who is Scientific American’s chief multimedia editor, spent a month on a scientific expedition on the Greenland ice sheet. The sun never ...

Whether space, health, technology or environment, here are the issues in science that the editors of Scientific American are ...

Paul Alexander (known as “Polio Paul” on social media) died at age 78 in a Dallas hospital earlier this month. He was 6 years old in 1952 when he contracted polio, just three years before the ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...

An AHA scientific statement provides a framework for coronary revascularization in older adults, focusing on individualized care and patient preferences.

In 2020, on a trip to Devon, England, Jennifer N. R. Smith (above) went swimming in the sea. Just as night fell, the water began to glow with light from bioluminescent algae. “It’s electric blue,” she ...