diff --git a/resources/recipes/scientific_american.recipe b/resources/recipes/scientific_american.recipe
index 3970684788..8896121092 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/scientific_american.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/scientific_american.recipe
@@ -12,96 +12,53 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 class ScientificAmerican(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title = u'Scientific American'
     description = u'Popular science. Monthly magazine.'
-    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
     language = 'en'
     remove_javascript   = True
-    oldest_article = 30
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content   = False
-    extra_css = '''
-                p{font-weight: normal; font-size:small}
-                li{font-weight: normal; font-size:small}
-                .headline p{font-size:x-small; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
-                h2{font-size:x-small;}
-                h3{font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
-                '''
-    remove_tags_before = dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'headline'})
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
 
-    remove_tags_after  = dict(id=['article'])
-    remove_tags        = [
-                          dict(id=['sharetools', 'reddit']),
-                          #dict(name='script'),
-                          {'class':['float_left', 'atools']},
-                          {"class": re.compile(r'also-in-this')},
-                          dict(name='a',title = ["Get the Rest of the Article","Subscribe","Buy this Issue"]),
-                          dict(name = 'img',alt = ["Graphic - Get the Rest of the Article"]),
-                          dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['commentbox']}),
-                          dict(name='h2', attrs={'class':['discuss_h2']}),
-                         ]
-
-    html2lrf_options = ['--base-font-size', '8']
-    recursions = 1
-    match_regexps = [r'article.cfm.id=\S+page=(2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15)']
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + '&print=true'
 
     def parse_index(self):
         soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag/')
-        monthtag = soup.find('div',attrs={'id':'magazine-main_col2'})
-        month = self.tag_to_string(monthtag.contents[1])
-
-
-        self.timefmt = ' [%s]'%(self.tag_to_string(month))
+        month = self.tag_to_string(soup.find('p',attrs={'id':'articleDek'}))
+        self.timefmt = ' [%s]'%(' '.join(month.strip().split()[:2]))
         img = soup.find('img', alt='Scientific American Magazine', src=True)
         if img is not None:
             self.cover_url = img['src']
-        features, feeds = [], []
-        for p in soup.find(id='magazine-main_col2').findAll('p') :
-            a = p.find('a', href=True)
-
-            if a is None: continue
-            desc = ''
-            s = p.find('span', attrs={'class':"sub"})
-            desc = self.tag_to_string(s)
-
-            article = {
-                    'url' : a['href'],
-                    'title' : self.tag_to_string(a),
-                    'date' : '',
-                    'description' : desc,
-                    }
-            features.append(article)
-        feeds.append(('Features', features))
-
-        section = []
-        title = None
-
-        for x in soup.find(id='magazine-main_col1').findAll(['div', 'a']):
-
-            if x.name == 'div':
-
-                if section:
-                    feeds.append((title, section))
-
-                title = self.tag_to_string(x)
-                section = []
-            else:
-
-                if 'article.cfm' in x['href']:
-                    article = {
-                            'url' : x['href'],
-                            'title' : self.tag_to_string(x),
-                            'date': '',
-                            'description': '',
-                        }
-
-                    section.append(article)
-
-        if section:
-            feeds.append((title, section))
 
+        feeds = []
+        for div in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':['primaryCol',
+            'secondaryCol']}):
+            current_section = None
+            for tag in div.findAll(['h2', 'ul']):
+                if tag.name == 'h2':
+                    current_section = self.tag_to_string(tag).strip()
+                    self.log('\tFound section:', current_section)
+                elif current_section is not None and tag.name == 'ul':
+                    articles = []
+                    for li in tag.findAll('li'):
+                        t = li.findAll('a',
+                                attrs={'class':lambda x: x != 'thumb'},
+                                href=lambda x: x and 'article.cfm' in x)
+                        if not t:
+                            continue
+                        t = t[-1]
+                        title = self.tag_to_string(t)
+                        url = t['href']
+                        desc = ''
+                        p = li.find(attrs={'class':'dek'})
+                        if p is not None:
+                            desc = self.tag_to_string(p)
+                        articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url,
+                            'description':desc, 'date':''})
+                        self.log('\t\tFound article:', title, '\n\t\tat', url)
+                    if articles:
+                        feeds.append((current_section, articles))
+                    current_section = None
         return feeds
 
-
     def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
         if soup is not None:
             for span in soup.findAll('span', attrs={'class':'pagination'}):