Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it
Cover of a 1905 issue
"Men of Progress", published by the magazine in 1862, showing American inventors such as Samuel Morse, Samuel Colt, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Goodyear, Peter Cooper, and others
Scientific American Office, New York, 37 Park Row, 1859, next to Munn & Co. on the right
Interior of Scientific American's office at 361 Broadway in New York City
Springer Nature is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave M
Scientific American
…since its inception. In print since 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Scientific American was owned by Springer Nature until June 2026, when it was sold to LabX Media Group. Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page…
Office at 3 Heidelberger Platz, Berlin