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Special Issue: Cities The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward

If you live anywhere between North Carolina and Connecticut, chances are you felt the earth shake a couple of hours ago. [More]

In the September issue of Scientific American , Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser describes how education and entrepreneurship can make or break cities.

Special Issue: Cities The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward

Several projects coordinated by MIT's Senseable City lab have revealed the powerful urban insights that can occur when people are linked via networks of sensors. Video and animations about a selection of such projects can be seen below.

When the topic of urbanization came up at Scientific American several weeks ago, I knew of the perfect short film to feature. [More]

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Editor's note: This slide show is part of a four-part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American , reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia. For a first-person reflection on her experience there, click here .

This is an invited guest post by Olivia Koski, graduate of the NYU program for science, health and environmental reporting.

James Gleick is best known for his groundbreaking bestseller Chaos, and has also authored inspired biographies of Newton and Richard Feynman. [More]

Several Scientific American staffers recently flew out to Mountain View, Calif.

Every week I post a quick Q&A with one of our bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better. [More]

The MSU students are back from China, where they explored the culture, looked for fossils, and studied dinosaur eggs in the laboratory. [More]