Social Sciences

Nobel laureates sometimes wait 20 years or more after making their award-worthy discovery to receive the prize

ChatGPT and similar AI programs give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election

Whether or not UFOs exist, we need to pay attention to how they are influencing our politics and culture

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

Geoengineering is happening, AI wants to talk with animals, and why we aren’t going to live in space

Earth as a zoo; sunburned eyes

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

Why we’re seduced by nature’s toxins, horror stories for winter solstice, and more books out this month

Science in meter and verse

A broad genetic study has revised the prevailing narrative about how wine grapes spread around the world

A government shutdown would disrupt biomedical research and clinical trials as federal experimental facilities shuttered

Pioneering scholar Riane Eisler describes her lifelong quest to understand why warlike societies are the norm