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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

May 2023
Volume 328, Issue 5

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F E AT U R E S D E PA R T M E N T S

A DVA N C E S
Synthetic Morphology Lets
Dried-Up Lagoon Is 'Time Analog' for
Scientists Create New Life-Forms Martian Life

The emerging field of synthetic morphology bends

boundaries between natural and artificial life Plant Cell Parts Turn into Glass to Soak
GENETIC ENGINEERING By Philip Ball
Up Sun

How Much Does 'Nothing' Weigh? Here's How to Use Window Films to
Actually Protect Birds
The Archimedes experiment will weigh the void of empty
space to help solve a big cosmic puzzle
Science News Briefs from around the
By Manon Bischoff
World: May 2023
PA R T I C L E P H YS I C S

Scientists Create Cyborg Bacteria

P L A N E TA R Y S C I E N C E
The Six Moons Most Likely to Host
Life in Our Solar System Plankton Generate a Cloudy Shield over
the Antarctic
Vast quantities of liquid water may exist on moons of
Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, making life possible there,
New Technique Can Map Ocean Plastics
too
from Space
By Rebecca Boyle and Juan Velasco

Mapping Arctic Foxes' Spectacular Solo

Citizen Science Art Showcases
Journeys
Jupiter's Beauty
Jupiter shines in images made by citizen scientists using Bionic Finger 'Sees' Inside Objects by
data from NASA’s Juno probe Poking Them
ASTRONOMY
By
A Famed Dolphin-Human Fishing
How Social Turmoil Has Increased Partnership Is in Danger of Disappearing

Witch Hunts throughout History Do Trees Really Support Each Other

Vicious attacks on women often accompany economic through a Network of Fungi?
upheavals
INEQUALITY By Alice Markham-Cantor and Silvia Federici
METER

Better Bus Systems Could Slow Poem: 'Confluence'

Climate Change
FROM THE EDITOR
Electric cars alone can’t solve our emissions problem
New Understandings of Witch Trials,
By Kendra Pierre-Louis
C L I M AT E C H A N G E Synthetic Morphology and the Moons of
Jupiter
At Jupiter, JUICE and Clipper Will
Work Together in Hunt for Life LETTERS

E X T R AT E R R E S T R I A L L I F E
A soon-to-launch European mission is the first of two Readers Respond to the January 2023
spacecraft—with the other coming from NASA—that will Issue
hunt for signs of habitability on Jupiter’s icy moons
By Jonathan O'Callaghan and Lee Billings
REVIEWS

The Connection between Allergies and

Climate Change

50, 100 & 150 YEARS AGO

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: May 2023

GRAPHIC SCIENCE

Dog Genetics Reveal Surprising

Relationships among Breeds

O B S E R VAT O R Y

False 'Facts' about Science and Social

Security Share Origins

T H E S C I E N C E O F H E A LT H

You Don't Really Need 10,000 Daily Steps

to Stay Healthy

THE UNIVERSE

The Asteroid Blast That Shook the World

Is Still Making an Impact

M I N D M AT T E R S

At a Haunted House, Friends Heighten

the Terror

FORUM

How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to

Incite Violence

Q&A

How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to

Animals

THE SCIENCE AGENDA

The U.S. Needs a Formal Reckoning on

the COVID Pandemic

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