Arts & Culture
(Grey's) Anatomy of an Opioid Crisis
The popular medical drama gets it right—with a little romance on the side, naturally
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Arts & Culture
A New View of Life on Earth, the Paradox of Quantum Reality and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Arts & Culture
Scientific American Is the Source of More Than 1,000 New Terms
A famous dictionary cites the magazine for new words and new meanings of old words
Arts & Culture
Science Fiction: The Cloudy Crystal Ball
Sci-fi has anticipated many scientific and technical breakthroughs—many of which never happened
Arts & Culture
There's A Word For Today
English lacks some words that other languages pack with meaning.
Mental Health
Scenic City Sights Linked to Higher Happiness
Tracking the location and mood of 15,000 people, researchers found that scenic beauty was linked to happiness—including near urban sights like bridges and buildings. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Behavior & Society
Why Losing Our Newspapers Is Breaking Our Politics
Study finds newspaper closures are linked to partisanship
Neuroscience
Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated
We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.
Arts & Culture
Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?
Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person.
Arts & Culture
Sing Solo For Higher Fidelity
By tracking duetting choir singers, researchers found that when an individual singer's pitch drifts off tune their partner’s tend to too. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Arts & Culture
It's True: We're Probably All a Little Irish--Especially in the Caribbean
Everyone is supposedly a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day but there is more truth to this saying than most recognize. It's not merely a loophole allowing for the uninhibited consumption of Guinness...
Space
Starstruck—60 Years of NASA’s Dazzling Archives
Get lost in space with this thrilling collection of images from the revered agency
Computing
Baseball Commish Talks Big Data
At a sports technology conference, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred addressed issues including an automated strike zone and advanced analytics.
Computing
Computer Program Measures the Entropy of Art
The digitization of paintings could help art historians detect previously unknown patterns and connections
Arts & Culture
The True Story of Einstein's Wife, a Revised History of Humans, and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Evolution
On the Origin of Darwin
On this 210th anniversary of Darwin's birth we hear evolution writer and historian Richard Milner perform a brief monologue as Charles Darwin, and former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie and Darwin's great-great-grandson Matthew Chapman read excerpts from The Origin of Species ...
Arts & Culture
Different Humpback Whale Groups Meet to Jam
Humpback populations from the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet up south of Africa and trade song stylings.
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A Man-Eating Tiger, the Science of Athletic Recovery and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Cognition
"Mona Lisa Effect" Not True for Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa effect is the illusion that the subject of a painting follows you with her gaze, despite where you stand. But da Vinci's famous painting doesn't have that quality. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Arts & Culture
Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridiculous
And Twitter is taking note
