Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea
The downsides of spacefaring, infiltrating Florida’s gator poachers, and more books out this month
The downsides of spacefaring, infiltrating Florida’s gator poachers, and more books out this month
A new book reveals the surprising roles of wildlife scat
Why we’re seduced by nature’s toxins, horror stories for winter solstice, and more books out this month
Horror stories from Indigenous writers, a plea for better road ecology, and more books out now
A new history of the deep ocean, seeking truth through math, a space opera about self-identity, and more books out now
It takes a lot of water and energy to make negronis, manhattans and margaritas. Could we do with less ice?
A wildfire rages against the Alberta tar sands, aliens induce existential crises for people (and cats), the hype and potential of MDMA, and more books out now
Allergies on the rise, the political power of dried plants, your brain on music, and more books out this month
Reviews from the editors of Scientific American
Plants acting with agency, wolf symbolism, therapeutic art, and more books out now
Sublime slime, sprawling light pollution, harnessing the bioelectricity in our body, and more books out this month
A novel that redefines personhood, greed and despair in biotech, arguing for a singular reality, and more books
The sweeping influence of one weird rodent, an ecological thriller, tender essays on deep-sea creatures, and more books out this month
A social history of measurements, an anthology of new speculative fiction, and more books
New books reviewed on the power of doubt, 1970s science-fiction icons, consciousness, interstellar travel, and more
Why evolutionary biology and social justice belong together, the Silicon Valley fatalism that’s ruining our planet, and more
New books on intelligence, medicinal cocktails, galactic history, and more
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American