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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 11, 2026
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What happens when AI becomes your friend? (opens the original)
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Can an AI chatbot replace human connection? What do we lose when machines become our closest confidants? By Brianne Kane, Jeffery DelViscio, Fonda Mwangi, Alli Rodgers, Rachel Feltman & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. One of my first memories involves accidentally killing a robot. I was five years old when Tamagotchis first launched globally and not much older when my first and last one met an untimely end in a glass of milk. I swear I
What happens when technology tries to optimize love? (opens the original)
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Can technology optimize companionship? A novelist imagines the extreme answer Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching algorithm By Brianne Kane, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura & Rachel Feltman Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. I’m just old enough to remember a time when using websites and apps to go on dates was the exception, not the rule. When I fired up OkCupid circa 2012, it was
Where are all the aliens? A new book explores possible answers (opens the original)
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Where are all the aliens? A new book explores possible answers Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the astonishing science behind modern searches for alien life We’ve been looking for aliens for as long as we’ve been looking up at the starry night sky. Wondering, “What’s up there?” quickly leads to asking, “Who’s up there—and why won’t they come down here and say hi?!” Astrobiology—the study of life in the unive
Silicon Valley reads a lot of science fiction. It often gets it wrong (opens the original)
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Silicon Valley reads a lot of science fiction. It often gets it wrong Historian Jill Lepore explains what tech leaders miss in their favorite stories—and why the fight over AI data centers may be where the machine stops The story always goes the same way: guy meets girl, guy explains he’s here from the future to stop the robot apocalypse, and guy and girl fall in love and fight off the robot overlords. The end. But historian Jill Lepore is interested in the part that gets skipped: How did the ro
What your fifth grade lesson missed about Lewis and Clark’s expedition (opens the original)
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The untold science and drama of Lewis and Clark’s expedition Historian Craig Fehrman unpacks the science, politics and human stories behind one of America’s most famous expeditions By Brianne Kane, Sushmita Pathak, Alex Sugiura, Rachel Feltman & Fonda Mwangi Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re capping off our week of summer reading episodes with a book about a famous chapter in U.S. history: the Lewis and Clark expedition. Now, if tucking into a b
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