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In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called ''The Sciences'', purchased the assets of the old ''Scientific American'' instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine. Thus the partners{{mdash}}publisher [[Gerard Piel]], editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller Jr. essentially created a new magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/08821127.1989.10731208|title=Magazine Publishing and Popular Science after World War II|year=1989|last1=Lewenstein|first1=Bruce V.|journal=American Journalism|volume=6|issue=4|pages=218–234}}</ref> Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold to the [[Holtzbrinck Publishing Group]] of Germany, which has owned it until the [[Springer Nature|Springer-Nature]] merger. In the fall of 2008, ''Scientific American'' was put under the control of Holtzbrinck's [[Nature Research|Nature Publishing Group]] division.<ref name="FOLIO">{{cite web |first=Jason |last=Fell |title=Scientific American Editor, President to Step Down; 5 Percent of Staff Cut |url=http://www.foliomag.com/2009/scientific-american-editor-president-step-down-5-percent-staff-cut |publisher=FOLIO |access-date=2009-04-26 |date=2009-04-23 |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407193643/http://www.foliomag.com/2009/scientific-american-editor-president-step-down-5-percent-staff-cut/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Donald Miller died in December 1998,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/classified/paid-notice-deaths-miller-donald-h.html| title=Donald H. Miller| date=December 27, 1998| quote=Miller-Donald H., Jr. Vice President and General Manager of the magazine Scientific American for 32 years until his retirement in 1979. Died on December 22, at home in Chappaqua, NY. He was 84. Survived by his wife of 50 years, Claire; children Linda Itkin, Geoff Kaufman, Sheila Miller Bernson, Bruce Miller, Meredith Davis, and Donald H. Miller, M.D.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and brother Douglas H. Miller. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 30, at 2 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Westchester in Mount Kisco, NY.| work=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=July 7, 2021| archive-date=September 19, 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240919020611/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/classified/paid-notice-deaths-miller-donald-h.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005. [[Mariette DiChristina]] became editor-in-chief after [[John Rennie (editor)|John Rennie]] stepped down in June 2009,<ref name="FOLIO"/> and stepped down herself in September 2019. In April 2020, [[Laura Helmuth]] assumed the role of [[editor-in-chief]].
The magazine is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Edmonds |first1=Rick |title=Can a magazine live forever? Scientific American, at 170, is giving it a shot |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/can-a-magazine-live-forever-scientific-american-at-170-is-giving-it-a-shot/ |website=[[Poynter.org|Poynter]] |date=27 August 2015 |access-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009192813/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/can-a-magazine-live-forever-scientific-american-at-170-is-giving-it-a-shot/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Edmonds |first1=Rick |title=Scientific American, the oldest U.S. magazine, hits another milestone as the appetite for science news heats up |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/scientific-american-the-oldest-u-s-magazine-hits-another-milestone-as-the-appetite-for-science-news-heats-up/ |website=[[Poynter.org|Poynter]] |date=31 August 2020 |access-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009192823/https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/scientific-american-the-oldest-u-s-magazine-hits-another-milestone-as-the-appetite-for-science-news-heats-up/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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