Culture
How Indigenous Groups Are Using 3-D Technology to Preserve Ancient Practices
To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models
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Inside an Arctic Expedition, Natural History of Fragrance, Essays on Places in Peril, and More
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This New Album Makes Beautiful Music out of Gravity, the Elements and Photosynthesis
The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut
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Poem: ‘The Algorithm’
Science in meter and verse
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Grayscale Lives in a Future Pandemic, Surveilling Memory, Saving Coral Reefs, and More
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More
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Animals
New Augmented Reality Models Bring Ice Age Animals to Virtual Life
Researchers want their models to inspire more accurate reconstructions of extinct animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats
History
How Much Medieval Literature Has Been Lost?
An ecological model suggests islands are better at preserving literature as well as species
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A Reverse Journey through Geologic Time, a Tale of Wild Horses and Interspecies Kinship, and More
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A Near-Future Plague, the Neuroscience of Navigation, and More
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Rachel Carson’s Explorations of the Sea, the Human Relationship with Elephants, and More
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Poem: ‘The Scalar Nature of Snow’
Science in meter and verse
Robotics
Want to Get Humans to Trust Robots? Let Them Dance
A performance with living and mechanical partners can teach researchers how to design more relatable bots
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What We Lose as Snowfall Disappears, the Science behind Aesop’s Fables, and Other New Books
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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Poem: ‘The Way of Karma’
Science in meter and verse
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How an Award-Winning Illustrator Weaves Emotion into Science
Award-winning science illustrator Fatinha Ramos creates intimate artwork that brings science stories to life
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Human Machinations around Animals, the Joy of Nature’s Eccentricities, and Other New Books
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Reproduction
What Dune Reveals about Reproductive Control and Eugenics
A new adaption offers an opportunity to revisit the overlooked biology in Herbert’s classic tale
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Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence
Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.
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Poem: ‘Earth’s Accidents (Over Wadi Qumran)’
Science in meter and verse
