Scientific American Magazine

The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas

Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next

Mining giant Rio Tinto made a high-profile pledge to improve the ecology of its ilmenite sites in Madagascar in cooperation with conservation scientists. Then its bottom line began to suffer

Half a century after Apollo 11, we remember how we achieved the impossible and why we need to do it again

Modern satellite imagery and 3-D modeling give us a new view of how Apollo 11 played out

A new race could be heating up to claim valuable moon terrain amid uncertain laws

All 122 attempts, visualized

An entirely new class of astronomical object—a synestia—may be the key to solving the lingering mysteries of lunar origin

The lunar rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts reshaped our understanding of the moon and the entire solar system. Gathering more of them is one of the most important reasons to go back

Humanity first went to the moon to make a point. Now it’s time to overcome rivalries and pitch in together