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We're 180 years old—we've been covering science news since before modern facial tissues, all the way to the recent discovery of a new color.   So, for the first time ever, a Digital subscription to Scientific American is $18—to celebrate 180 years of independent science journalism.  Subscribe Celebrating 180 Years of Scientific American U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won The year was 1950, and the "red scare" was fully underway, alongside a nascent arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviet demonstration of an atomic bomb in... Read More Neurotic Cats, One-Eyed Aliens and Hypnosis for Liars Are among the Historical Gems Reported in Scientific American Scientists are trained to thoroughly investigate their new ideas. Sometimes, however, their preliminary research can go down strange rabbit holes, leading to interpretations of...  Read More What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be 1887—the year when Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley conducted what is often called the...  Read More ​ One Year after Scientific American's First Issue, the Solar System Grew by a Planet In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the universe but certainly for our understanding of it. When Scientific American published... Read More View more stories

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