ArchaeologyNovember 8, 2023
Incan ‘Ice Maiden’ Revealed in Hyperrealistic Facial Reconstruction
A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual
Social Sciences
AnimalsNovember 7, 2023
Birds Named after People Will Get New English Names
Standard English names for North American birds will now focus on the animals rather than people
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OpinionNovember 2, 2023
What Makes a Country Happy? It’s Complicated
Every happy country is not alike
LanguageNovember 1, 2023
What Peace Speech—The Benign Twin of Hate Speech—Says about a Country
A machine-learning model helps identify and measure the prevailing buzz about peace in the news cycle
LanguageNovember 1, 2023
Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows
An Aboriginal language provides unexpected insight into how language influences perception
ArtsNovember 1, 2023
Poems: ‘Fractal’ and ‘In Practice’
Science in meter and verse
SociologyNovember 1, 2023
Women Who Hunt, Organ Transplants and 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act
Why scary things can be fun, how to grow materials in space, and language’s influence on the mind
HistoryNovember 1, 2023
History: November 2023
Mayan eclipses; birds sense cholera
CultureNovember 1, 2023
Science News Briefs from around the World: November 2023
Coral trysts by moonlight in French Polynesia, polluted Antarctic wilderness, mummified bees in Portugal, and more in this month’s Quick Hits
CultureNovember 1, 2023
Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue
Letters to the editors for the June 2023 issue of Scientific American
ArtsNovember 1, 2023
Wildlife Poop Is the Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
A new book reveals the surprising roles of wildlife scat
ArtsNovember 1, 2023
Why Settling Mars Is a Terrible Idea
The downsides of spacefaring, infiltrating Florida’s gator poachers, and more books out this month