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New York City is renowned for its great-tasting tap water, which is said to be amongst the purest in the country. However, when viewed under a microscope, the sight tends to disagree with the taste. Less than a year ago, it was reported that when looking at a microscopic droplet of this water, a NYC resident found tiny crustacean-like creatures floating around .

Magician David Copperfield waved his hand over the envelope, which popped open. He wiggled his fingers, and the card slid upward

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab, and Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the cover piece in the May issue on radical energy solutions. Web sites related to this episode include "Inside The Meat Lab " and "7 Radical Energy Solutions". [More]

The World Science Festival is a place where one goes to see the giants of science, many of whom are household names (at least in scientifically inclined households) like E.O Wilson, Steven Pinker and James Watson, people on top of their game in their scientific fields, as well as science supporters in other walks of life, including entertainment - Alan Alda, Maggie Gullenhal and Susan Sarandon were there, among others - and journalism (see this for an example , or check out more complete coverage of the Festival at Nature Network ). With so many exciting sessions, panels and other events at the Festival, it was hard to choose which ones to attend.

The 61st Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, is taking place from June 26 to July 1. At the event, about 20 past laureates in physiology or medicine will mingle with more than 550 young scientists. In honor of the meeting Scientific American has collected articles that Nobel Prize winners have published in the magazine recently as well as more than 60 years ago.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA. “As has often happened in Russia, we have had the priority in scientific invention, but completely lose the market,” Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, Rusnano[www.rusnano.com], told members of the Scientific American international editions during a visit today

For a limited time, "Greater Glory: Why Scott Let Amundsen Win the Race to the Pole" , a feature from the June issue of Scientific American is being made available for fans of Scientific American's page on Facebook. Read it now or become a fan

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson talks about his article Greater Glory in the June issue of Scientific American on the forgotten science of the doomed Scott expedition a hundred years ago. [More]

Gazelle have polygynous mating habits.

For most of the past century the scientific consensus held that the adult human brain did not produce any new neurons. Researchers overturned that theory in the 1990s, but what role new neurons played in the adult human brain remained a mystery. Recent work now sug

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Orazio Svelto for his pioneering, long-lasting and innovative work in the fields of lasers and optics. Svelto is an internationally renowned laser and photonics scientist and one of the worldwide leaders of the scientific community in this field. The award, accompanied by EUR 5,000, will be presented on 24 May 2011 at the Laser World of Photonics Congress in Munich, Germany.

By now, we are all familiar with the many reasons we need to lessen our dependency on oil and of the importance in looking for alternative and renewable energery sources. If you need any more convincing, however, maybe you'll go along with an idea printed in the October 11, 1862 Scientific American.

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May on radical energy solutions. [More]

Since today is Friday the 13th, I’d like to share with you an unlucky situation I came across in the Scientific American archive.

Galaxies litter the cosmos by the hundreds of billions.