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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

By Sharon Weinberger of Nature magazine Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security program that can supposedly 'sense' whether you are planning to commit a crime. Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned

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Lions roaming the savannah are a staple of nature documentaries. But the millions of little lions that live in our homes and neighborhoods also lead fascinating lives. We know more about those lives now, because a two-year-long study used radio-transmitters to track cats at the southern edge of the cities of Champaign and Urbana in Illinois.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--AccuWeather.com reports nearly 1,200 tornadoes have been reported in the United States so far this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 2011 is a year destined for the tornado record book

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]

What does a supernova sound like? Hopefully we will never find out directly--getting within earshot of an exploding star is probably a bad idea

Post-revolution Egypt is in a state of flux overlooked by outsiders. New political parties are forming while various factions hustle for power.

By Ewen Callaway Nature magazine By transforming cells from human skin into working nerve cells, researchers may have come up with a model for nervous-system diseases and perhaps even regenerative therapies based on cell transplants. The achievement, reported online today in Nature , is the latest in a fast-moving field called transdifferentiation, in which cells are forced to adopt new identities.

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Name: Shawn Brixey Title: Arts Chair, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington [More]

To better understand how weather will behave in the future, researchers need to understand how weather has behaved in the past [More]

Viewed on a map, South Georgia Island is a speck in the vast Southern Ocean. But new research by the British Antarctic Survey suggests that the waters surrounding the tiny island are home to a disproportionately large slice of marine life. Nearly 1,500 species live off the coast of the former whaling outpost, including many found nowhere else on Earth

By Nicola Nosengo of Nature magazine Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in the earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009. The seven were on a committee that had been tasked with assessing the risk associated with recent increases in seismic activity in the area. [More]