Today the editors of the Scientific American Blog Network are announcing a new vision for the network, one with increased editorial oversight and more editorial curation of the subjects covered by... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The overarching project of science is building reliable knowledge about the world, but the way this knowledge-building happens in our world is in the context of competition. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Twenty-five years ago today, on December 6, 1989, in Montreal, fourteen women were murdered for being women in what their murderer perceived to be a space that rightly belonged to men: Geneviève... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

James Watson, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the double helix structure of DNA, is in the news, offering his Nobel Prize medal at auction. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

This being the season, I’d like to take the opportunity to pause and give thanks. I’m thankful for parents who encouraged my curiosity and never labeled science as something it was... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Background I hate chopping onions. They make me cry within seconds, and those tears both hurt and obscure my view of onions, knife, and fingertips (which can lead to additional injuries). -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com