Perennially popular feature articles from past issues:
Ernest R. Hilgard
A 1972 review of Patterning of Time, by Leonard W. Doob
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Paul J. Mitarachi
A 1972 review of Civilizing American Cities, by Frederick Law Olmstead, edited by S. B. Sutton; Autokind vs. Mankind, by Kenneth R. Schneider; and Anatomy of a Park, by Albert J. Rutledge
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Gerald H. Kramer
A 1969 review of Mathematical Models of Arms Control & Disarmament: Application of Mathematical Structures to Politics, by T. L. Saaty
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Mary S. Calderone
A 1969 review of Sex Is for Real (Human Sexuality & Sexual Responsibility), by W. Dalrymple
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Elizabeth C. Patterson
A 1978 review of Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835–1975, by Mary Roth Walsh, and The Hidden Malpractice:How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals, by Gena Corea
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Margaret Dittemore
A 1978 review of Food Production and Its Consequences, by Philip E. L. Smith
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Yaakou Schechter
A 1978 review of The Ultimate Experiment: Man-Made Evolution, by Nicholas Wade
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Peter M. Will
A 1978 review of Machine Takeover: The Growing Threat to Human Freedom in a Computer-Controlled Society, by Frank George
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Jay Martin Anderson
A 1974 review of Ecology and Environment: Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins, by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson
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John B. Heywood
A 1973 review of Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine: Impacts on Environmental Quality, by Robert U. Ayres and Richard P. McKenna
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Barry Saltzman
A 1973 review of Clouds of the World: A Complete Color Encyclopedia, by Richard Scorer
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Masakazu Konishi
Experiments with trained barn owls reveal how their acute sense of hearing enables them to catch prey in the dark
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The Editors
American Scientist celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary
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The Editors
On our 75th anniversary, we collected 75 reasons. Now we've added 25 more
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American Scientist has run cartoons in its pages since 1970. Here we offer a selection of our favorites.
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Cyril Isenberg
Soap films provide a simple method of obtaining analogue solutions to some mathematical problems
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
This classic Marginalia on the dodo's disappearance was first published in 1954
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B. F. Skinner
The 1957 American Scientist article, reproduced in full
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Douglas Larson
A natural calamity provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study the rejuvenation of a once-pristine lake
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Douglas Erwin, James Valentine, David Jablonski
Molecular biology provides insights into the Early Cambrian explosion
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Lewis Branscomb
A scientist in 2006 looks back on the two decades of extraordinary progress, change and controversy that followed Sigma Xi's Centennial
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Ulric Neisser
Test scores are certainly going up all over the world, but whether intelligence itself has risen remains controversial
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Robert L. Dorit
This review originally appeared in the September-October 1997 issue of American Scientist.
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Richard Ostfeld
Complex interactions between seemingly unconnected phenomena determine risk of exposure to this expanding disease
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Boris Yakobson, Richard Smalley
Some unusual new molecules—long, hollow fibers with tantalizing electronic and mechanical properties—have joined diamonds and graphite in the carbon family
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Robert Provine
The study of laughter provides a novel approach to the mechanisms and evolution of vocal production, perception and social behavior
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Christian de Duve
The cradle of life may have been an acrid, boiling brew, reeking of volcanic hydrogen sulfide-laden fumes
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Earl Hunt
Are social changes dividing us into intellectual haves and have-nots? The question pushed aside in the 1970s is back, and the issues are far from simple
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Craig Stanford
Chimpanzees are efficient predators that use meat as a political and reproductive tool. Are there implications for the evolution of human behavior?
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Judith Swazey, Melissa Anderson, Karen Louis
A survey of doctoral candidates and faculty raises important questions about the ethical environment of graduate education and research
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George Gopen, Judith Swan
If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs
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