This New Album Makes Beautiful Music out of Gravity, the Elements and Photosynthesis

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May 31, 2022

Dear Reader, It's been a rough couple of weeks. If you need a break from the news, might I suggest listening to some science tunes? In this week's lead story, Scientific American's digital art director Ryan Reid reviews a self-titled album from British duo the Sound of Science, which includes songs about gravity, the water cycle and other science-related topics.

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology

Arts This New Album Makes Beautiful Music out of Gravity, the Elements and Photosynthesis The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut By Ryan Reid

Culture The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo By The Editors

Pollution New, Stronger Rules for Truck Pollution Still Would Not Meet Air Quality Goals Heavy-duty trucks are the largest mobile source of a key precursor to dangerous ozone and particulate matter By Arianna Skibell,E&E News

Space Exploration Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight's Swan Song NASA's three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice By Joanna Thompson

Arts Inside an Arctic Expedition, Natural History of Fragrance, Essays on Places in Peril, and More Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Amy Brady

Consciousness We Shouldn't Try to Make Conscious Software--Until We Should Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines By Jim Davies

Robotics Drones Could Spot Crime Scenes from Afar A system could aid forensic searches and crime-scene mapping by detecting reflections from human materials By Rachel Berkowitz

Artificial Intelligence AI Can Predict Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space New work maps a region's nutrient landscape By Rachel Berkowitz

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 5

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this, we are failing our children, over and over again." The Editors, Scientific American

FROM THE ARCHIVE Science Songs: A Spotify Playlist Aerodynamics, androids and fly larvae feature in our curated collection of top indie tunes inspired by science By Ryan Reid | February 2021

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