We want to live better, more youthful days while we’re living longer. Diet, exercise and a lucky draw from the gene pool can take us only so far, however. That’s where science comes in.
In this special edition from Scientific American, you’ll find firsthand reports from the researchers leading the efforts to understand the mechanisms of aging. They are teasing out ways to slow the biological clock as well as the degradation that time imposes on our bodies and minds. They are battling the diseases of age, including cancer and heart disease.

- The Paradox of the Sun’s Hot Corona
- Mercury: The Forgotten Planet
- Global Climate Change on Venus
- The Origins of Water on Earth
- The Unearthly Landscapes of Mars

In this special edition from Scientific American, we have collected articles about the latest developments in the field of human evolution—written by the experts who are leading the investigations.

We invite you to explore the pages that follow, to learn more about that fascinating first chapter in everybody’s family history.

The contributions of Kantian thought to modern mathematics, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics are now widely acknowledged by scholars. As the essays in this volume show, the general development of modern scientific thought--including the physical sciences, the life sciences, and mathematics--can be viewed as an evolution from Kant through Poincarй to Einstein and the logical positivists and beyond. Focusing on nineteenth-century science, the essays--by historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics--trace the multiple intellectual transformations that have led from Kant's original scientific situation to the scientific problems of the twentieth century.

This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy.