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
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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
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A Plot Twist for Climate Change, the Power of Occam’s Razor, and Other New Books
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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Evolution of Cooperation, Animals’ Sensory Systems, and Other New Books
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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Poem: ‘sap pitch and resin’
Science in meter and verse
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Summer of Science Reading, Episode 4: Navigating Loss and Hope with Nature
In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement...
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No Shrinking Violet
How Impressionist painters made an unusual color all the rage
