Scientific American Magazine

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New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the U.S. flower market

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy

White-throated Sparrows demonstrate that traits we usually associate with sex can be influenced by genes that are not on sex chromosomes

New atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change

Halophytes that thrive in increasingly saline soils could help feed people and livestock