The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible threat to the food we eat ...

Roses, long admired for their beauty and symbolic richness, owe their iconic petal shape to a mechanical process that has remained largely mysterious—until now. According to a new study, the pointed ...

Geometric close geometricRelating to geometry and featuring straight lines and regular mathematical shapes and forms such as squares ... Lines that appear natural and imperfect rather than ...