Social Sciences

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AnthropologyNovember 19, 2025

Kissing May Have Evolved 21.5 Million Years Ago

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time

Stephanie Pappas

The SciencesNovember 19, 2025

Epstein Files Spark Harvard Investigation into Larry Summers

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relationship Summers pursued with a student

Dan Vergano

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BooksNovember 18, 2025

Five Essential Reads on Plastic, Power and Pollution

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American

Brianne Kane

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CultureNovember 18, 2025

Science Bleeds When It’s Cut

As funding dries up, researchers face setbacks that threaten innovation and public progress

David M. Ewalt

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CultureNovember 18, 2025

Readers Respond to the July/August 2025 Issue

Letters to the editors for the July/August Issue 2025 issue of Scientific American

Aaron Shattuck

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LanguageNovember 18, 2025

Science Crossword: A Destructive Fix

Play this crossword inspired by the December 2025 issue of Scientific American

Aimee Lucido

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ArtsNovember 18, 2025

Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

Science in meter and verse

Nancy Brewka-Clark

HistoryNovember 18, 2025

December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Heimlich maneuver; training fleas

Mark Fischetti

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InternetNovember 17, 2025

The unlikely story of an e-mail time machine

Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next

David M. Ewalt

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AnthropologyNovember 17, 2025

How to send a message to future civilizations

When written knowledge is more ephemeral than ever, how can we pass on what’s important?

Adam Rogers

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HistoryNovember 14, 2025

U.S. Spy Agency Releases Amelia Earhart Records

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised records related to vanished pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. More records are promised on a rolling basis

Dan Vergano

Dot plot shows percentage of total kilometers traveled on foot and bicycle across cities in the 15 top countries for walking and cycling. Dots are shown for the median, mean, 25th and 75th percentiles, and more outlying cities within each country.

EngineeringNovember 14, 2025

These are the World's Best Cities for Walking and Cycling

Data from 11,587 cities show that, rain or shine, some places are just better for bikes and pedestrians

Jesse Greenspan

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