Scientific American Magazine

A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival

The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S. heartland

Changing how dyslexia is diagnosed could help many more children learn to read

A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is