OK, so for people who want to read the actual articles: 1. Look up the DOI of the article on Nature's website, e.g.: https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican

OK, so for people who want to read the actual articles: 1. Look up the DOI of the article on Nature's website, e.g.: https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v199/n2/index.html https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v199/n2/in... (un)conveniently, you can't find DOI on the page linked from the OP's article. 2. Use the DOI to look up the paper on http://sci-hub.se http://sci-hub.se (or one of its mirrors), e.g: http://sci-hub.se/10.1038/scientificamerican0858-100 http://sci-hub.se/10.1038/scientificamerican0858-100 3. (deprive the publisher of) Profit!