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Readers Respond to the April 2021 Issue
Letters to the editor from the April 2021 issue of Scientific American Credit: Scientific American, April 2021 PERCOLATION…
August 28, 2021
Poem: ‘Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822–1907)’
Edited by Dava Sobel It is perhaps not strange that the Radiates, a type of animals
whose home…
August 21, 2021
One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm
If you had 1,000 butts, what would you do with them? The marine worm Ramisyllis multicaudata is one…
August 8, 2021
O UFOs, Where Art Thou?
Just before the release in June of the much-anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), I sat…
August 5, 2021
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: August 2021
Tasty radio; early fake leather By Mark Fischetti 1921: “The ‘solar wind’ of particles sweeps the earth’s magnetic…
August 1, 2021
The Human Framework for Alien Life
A clip from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1978 made the social media rounds in mid-July.…
July 29, 2021
Why So Many Young People Hate STEM Courses
Ever since I can remember, I was constantly asking questions. My parents called me “Miss Inquisity” because of…
July 28, 2021
NASA Investigates Renaming James Webb Space Telescope after Anti-LGBT+ Claims
NASA is considering whether to rename its flagship astronomical observatory, given reports alleging that James Webb, after whom…
July 26, 2021
Quantum Mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the Blind Piranha
My quantum experiment, which has consumed me for more than a year now, has dredged up a creepy,…
July 24, 2021