MusicOctober 15, 2024
Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved
Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world
Social Sciences
Book ReviewsOctober 15, 2024
Book Review: How the Author of Braiding Sweetgrass Imagines a New Economy
Robin Wall Kimmerer changed our ideas of sustainability. Can she do the same for economics?
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Book ReviewsOctober 15, 2024
Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever
In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies
Book ReviewsOctober 15, 2024
Book Review: How Our Love for Citrus Shaped the Modern World
A history of citrus fruits, from the Han Dynasty to the modern orange juice industry
ArtsOctober 15, 2024
Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’
Science in meter and verse
HistoryOctober 15, 2024
November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
Computer chess champ; dental chloroform killer
Book ReviewsOctober 15, 2024
Book Review: The Big Costs of Mining the Planet for Electric Power
Vince Beiser’s tour of the “Electro-Digital Age” puts resource extraction at the center
OpinionOctober 15, 2024
Contrary to Occam’s Razor, the Simplest Explanation Is Often Not the Best One
Occam’s razor holds that the simplest explanation is closest to the truth. But the real world is quite complex
CultureOctober 15, 2024
Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious
What works to improve health equity? And it might be time to end the leap second
CultureOctober 15, 2024
Readers Respond to the June 2024 Issue
Letters to the editors for the June 2024 issue of Scientific American
CultureOctober 15, 2024
Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2024 Issue
Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories
Book ReviewsOctober 15, 2024
Book Review: Inside the Global Movement to Protect Forests from Climate Change
Lessons from the people making forest ecosystems more resilient