Happy Thanksgiving! To keep you busy while you recover from turkey coma, we’re republishing some of our favorite stories from 2013. Enjoy.–Eds Surf and turf. It sounds like mere decadence–a pairing of ...

In recent years, Steve Smith’s chemistry class at Animas High School has traded in their beakers and Bunsen burners — at least for one impactful unit — in favor of complicated datasets and graphic ...

Something amazing is happening in the world of science, and it’s all thanks to video gamers. Inside of the massively multiplayer online game, Eve Online, there exists a mini game where the efforts of ...

I write, I listen, I research, I tell stories. Mostly just listen. I don't think we listen without judgment enough. I explore marginalized things we like to ignore. Addiction and mental illness is The ...

Homebrew website Dripped Coffee has an infographic showing 13 reasons why we can never get enough coffee – and why there has not been a comparable substitute yet. One reason is the speed: Coffee takes ...

This infographic from The Economist shows countries with the biggest share of academic citations “SCIENCE is becoming bigger and more global. That, at least, is the conclusion of a report published by ...

The people at Science Exchange surveyed over 1,500 scientists about their collaborations. This infographic summarizes the enlightening data they garnered. *Of the 1,500 surveyed scientists: 78% were ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed half the members of a key scientific advisory board with their possible replacements including representatives from industries the agency is supposed ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...

Taking time off is healthy — and even though many of us can’t swing a weeklong vacation to de-stress, we can at least take advantage of our Saturdays and Sundays. Disconnecting from work over the ...