Culture

Every happy country is not alike

Letters to the editors for the June 2023 issue of Scientific American

Coral trysts by moonlight in French Polynesia, polluted Antarctic wilderness, mummified bees in Portugal, and more in this month’s Quick Hits

Researchers have documented that social media can harm teens

For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus

Mammals munching on dinosaurs in China, Greenland’s melted past, coral catastrophe in Florida, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits

Letters to the editors for the May 2023 issue of Scientific American

Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture

Ancient poop pathogens in Israel, Peru’s millennia-old El Niño preparations, a halt to Icelandic whale hunting, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits

Letters to the editors for the April 2023 issue of Scientific American

A clinical health psychologist talks about Barbie’s influence on how women and girls view their body

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.