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Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the June 2023 Issue

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

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands

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A new study finds that we respond to simple commands, such as smiling or frownin...

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care With a Corpse

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If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it...

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

JWST Detects Quartz Crystals in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

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Astronomers have found high-altitude clouds formed from quartz crystals on the g...

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

Can We Save Every Species from Extinction?

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The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved fr...

Scientists Explore Pulling Potent Methane Out of the Air to Curb Warming

Scientists Explore Pulling Potent Methane Out of the Ai...

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Methane traps more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but pulling it fr...

See How Humans around the World Spend the 24 Hours in a Day

See How Humans around the World Spend the 24 Hours in a...

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A new study calculated the average “global human day,” revealing which activitie...

How to Save Greenland's Massive Ice Sheet

How to Save Greenland's Massive Ice Sheet

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The Greenland Ice Sheet could experience runaway melting if the world overshoots...

The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses

The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies ...

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Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing c...

Stunning Images Reveal Rogue Planets of the Orion Nebula

Stunning Images Reveal Rogue Planets of the Orion Nebula

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared gaze sheds new light on the Orion nebu...

Why Is Asthma Worse in Stormy Weather?

Why Is Asthma Worse in Stormy Weather?

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New research offers insight into how rain and thunderstorms break up and spread ...

The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing

The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing

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The sun’s magnetic poles are about to reverse as part of a regular 11-year sunsp...

U.S. Plan to Put Weapons-Grade Uranium in a Civilian Reactor Is Dangerous and Unnecessary

U.S. Plan to Put Weapons-Grade Uranium in a Civilian Re...

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The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enr...

Wildlife Poop Is the Climate Solution You've Never Heard Of

Wildlife Poop Is the Climate Solution You've Never Hear...

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A new book reveals the surprising roles of wildlife scat

Why Is the Sky Dark Even Though the Universe Is Full of Stars?

Why Is the Sky Dark Even Though the Universe Is Full of...

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The darkness of the night sky offers a profound insight on the nature of the cosmos

This Virus Hunter Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Garage Full of Guinea Pigs

This Virus Hunter Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Gara...

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It's a global pandemic. The year is not 2020 but 1918, and Harriet Jane Lawrence...

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