The SciencesJune 30, 2011
Will Convicted Sex Murderer Amanda Knox Benefit from the CSI Effect?
Stories by Philip Yam
Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.
EvolutionJune 20, 2011
Miss USA Pageant Winner One of Two Contestants to Back Evolution [Video]
The SciencesMay 20, 2011
Why We're Suckers for Stories of the Apocalypse
Mind & BrainMay 19, 2011
Natural Born Prion Killers: Lichens Degrade "Mad Cow" Related Brain Pathogen
The SciencesMay 10, 2011
Scientific American Wins 2011 National Magazine Award for General Excellence
EnvironmentApril 6, 2011
Experts on Japan nuclear crisis answer questions from Nature readers
The SciencesApril 1, 2011
Computer restoraton of juvenile art, by Ricardo Chiav'inglese
HealthMarch 19, 2011
Attention, Ann Coulter: Report to aisle 5 for radiation cleanup
The SciencesMarch 11, 2011
The spread of the tsunami from Japan across the Pacific [Video]
The SciencesFebruary 14, 2011
The International Year of Chemistry 2011: The chemical secrets of chocolate revealed [Video]
The SciencesFebruary 12, 2011
Wind and Mr. Ug: Finding love on the (Möbius) strip [Video]
The SciencesJanuary 26, 2011
Obama spotlights science in his State of the Union address
Mind & BrainJanuary 13, 2011
Bad prion breath: Mad cow disease agent can infect via the air
The SciencesJanuary 13, 2011
Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina named AAAS fellow
EnvironmentDecember 31, 2010
In defense of doom and gloom in an oil-price bet
EnvironmentNovember 17, 2010
Do 80 percent of Scientific American subscribers deny global warming? Hardly
The SciencesSeptember 30, 2010
A festivus for the rest of us: Previewing the USA Science & Engineering Festival
The SciencesSeptember 22, 2010
A fresh look for the Scientific American Web site
The SciencesSeptember 16, 2010
Change the equation: Scientific American joins White House effort to boost U.S. science, tech and math skills
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2010
New science blog networks mushroom to life
TechnologyJuly 23, 2010
Should you worry about the tags on Wal-Mart underwear?
The SciencesJune 3, 2010
Carbon monoxide man, and other pictures you can draw with molecules
TechnologyJune 1, 2010
12 Events That Will Change Everything
In addition to reacting to news as it breaks, we work to anticipate what will happen. Here we contemplate 12 possibilities and rate their likelihood of happening by 2050
EnvironmentJune 1, 2010
Nuclear Exchange
A local conflict could produce a global nightmare