Scientific American has combed shopping malls and Web sites for 10 of the geekiest gadgets that leverage science and technology in novel and surprising ways
By Larry Greenemeier | Dec 3, 2012
The new railroad terminal was heralded as the "Gateway to America's Greatest City" when it opened on February 1, 1913
By Daniel C. Schlenoff | Dec 1, 2012 | 1
Science and a furnace turn glass and metallic oxides into fantastic worlds
By Mark Fischetti | Nov 29, 2012
Conservators, curators and taxidermists developed novel techniques to preserve the past with an eye to the future as they restored aging animal dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History
By Katherine Harmon | Nov 16, 2012 | 8
Young Picassos and budding Rembrandts reveal an artistic mind-set at early ages
By Sandra Upson | Nov 15, 2012 | 2
With New York City as their backdrop, Cooper Union engineering students use their technical skills to reimagine photography
By Larry Greenemeier | Nov 14, 2012
A century of easier travel
By Daniel C. Schlenoff | Nov 10, 2012 | 5
The moustache was a controversial facial adornment in the early days of Scientific American, but the magazine contained some spectacular specimens nonetheless
By Evelyn Lamb | Nov 7, 2012
England's Bloodhound Project successfully tested its booster in October, but other racers are likewise in hot pursuit of the land-speed record
The origins New York City's rapid transit system, parts of which remain flooded and compromised this week due to Hurricane Sandy, date back to 1870, when the editor of this magazine financed a prototype pneumatic subway in the Big Apple
Nov 2, 2012
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