History
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: February 2023
Paranoid computer; Mount Everest not the highest
Latest Social Sciences Stories
Policy
Adorable Voles, Life as We Don’t Know It and Better Cement
Love in the brain, how dreams predict disease and better words for climate change in this month’s issue of Scientific American
Policy
Science News Briefs from around the World: February 2023
Sharks wielding research cameras in the Bahamas, Mexico’s spider monkey diplomacy, a carbon “time bomb” in the Republic of Congo, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits...
Arts
Death, Sex and Aliens: A Surprising History of Slime
Sublime slime, sprawling light pollution, harnessing the bioelectricity in our body, and more books out this month
Policy
Readers Respond to the October 2022 Issue
Letters to the editor for the October 2022 issue of Scientific American
Anthropology
Native Americans Conducted Large-Scale Copper Mining 6,000 Years Ago
Prehistoric pollution reveals extensive copper mining near Lake Superior
Sociology
New Apps Aim to Douse the Social Media Dumpster Fire
Social media makes us miserable, but can “positive apps,” such as Gas and BeReal, make a difference?
Archaeology
Did Plants Domesticate Humans? Watch The First Entanglement
Archaeologists studying one of the birthplaces of agriculture find a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics.
Archaeology
Lasers Reveal Massive, 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden beneath Guatemalan Rain Forest
A sprawling Maya site has been discovered beneath a Guatemalan rain forest
Inequality
Half of the 250 Kids Expelled from Preschool Each Day Are Black Boys
Racism and overstressed teachers help explain high expulsion rates for Black preschool boys
