To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our ...

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

Drawing on decades of experience in global health and international scientific exchanges, Nobel laureate Peter Agre makes the ...

Some scientific discoveries take place in a lab. Others are made deep in the rainforest, along the ocean floor or on the dark ...