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Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show ...

Peter Hall is a freelance journalist and Ph.D. candidate in computer science at New York University. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.

I’ve been a Scientific American subscriber since I was 12 years old, and it helped shape the way I look at the world. SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, ...