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It Happened to Me: I Got Trolled by a Theorem

Wilson's theorem is why we can't have nice things

Evelyn Lamb

Policy

Kavli and Nobel Laureates Tackle Science’s Big Questions

Highlights from an hour-long panel of Kavli and Nobel prizewinners at the National Academy of Sciences

Steve Mirsky

EARTH

Spectacular Images of Mount Saint Helens's Eruption

The 1980 eruptive sequence completely changed the landscape around Mount Saint Helens. Geologists flocked there to measure and investigate, taking thousands of photos in the process...

Dana Hunter

Secret of jockey's strange posture revealed

In October of 1898, The N ew York Times reported on an American jockey named James Forman “Tod” Sloan who had begun riding his horse “crouched well forward on his mount’s neck.” The Times further noted that Sloan had "astonished the English turfmen and jockeys not only by his style of riding which is peculiar to him, but also by his great success.” Now, more than a century after Sloan debuted the crouching technique, scientists have figured out how the now-standard riding posture boosts performance...

Lynne Peeples

Evolution

The Fall and Rise of Protoichthyosaurus

Are the rumors true? Is an obscure British ichthyosaur, named in 1979 and all but forgotten, really back from the trash bin of synonymy? Well, let’s find out...

Darren Naish

James Watson--yes, that Watson--to discuss...how to train scientists better?

I got an invitation today to a film screening of Naturally Obsessed, The Making of a Scientist . The documentary, by Richard and Carole Rifkind, asks the question, "What does it take to produce the scientists we need to keep America competitive?" That seems like an important question, and one to which Scientific American readers would no doubt like to have the answer...

Ivan Oransky

Special Report

Spotlight on Women in Science

Honoring women at the forefront of science

Videos

Biology

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This revolutionary gene-editing system has taken science by storm.

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Space & Physics

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Space & Physics

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