To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing jigsaw puzzles to show off some of our most fascinating magazine covers over the years. Take a tour here through the covers so ...

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What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind Total reversals in scientific thinking are rare—but ...

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Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 ...

Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an ...

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