Mind & Brain
Get Smart, Take a Test
A long-term rise in IQ scores baffles intelligence experts
Stories by John Horgan
The Sciences
The New Social Darwinists
Psychologists and others try to sidestep old pitfalls—both political and scientific—as they apply evolutionary theory to the clothed ape
Space & Physics
Beyond Neptune
Hubble telescope spots a vast ring of icy protoplanets
Mind & Brain
Complexifying Freud
Psychotherapists seek inspiration in nonlinear sciences
Space & Physics
It's all in the Timing
Neurons may be more punctual than had been supposed
The Sciences
Escaping in a Cloud of Ink
The Sciences
How to Catch a Fly Ball
Space & Physics
Bashing Black Holes
Theorists twist relativity to eradicate an astronomical anomaly
The Sciences
From Complexity to Perplexity
Can science achieve a unified theory of complex systems? Even at the Santa Fe Institute, some researchers have their doubts
Evolution
The Eyes Have It
Health
Better Late than Never
A chemical attack in Tokyo adds urgency to arms-control efforts
The Sciences
Top Price for the Top Quark
A critic decries the cost of particle physics
Mind & Brain
Josephson's Inner Junction
The Sciences
The Return of the Maverick
Health
The No-Name Virus
Questions linger after the Four Corners outbreak
The Sciences
Global Politics
Mathematicians collide over a claim about packing spheres
Mind & Brain
Brain Storm
Controlling chaos could help treat epilepsy
Space & Physics
Microquasars
Giantblobs fly faster than light (sort of) in our own Milky Way
The Sciences
Gruff Guru of Condensed-Matter Physics
Technology
Sex, Death and Sugar
Researchers try to "grow" societies on a computer
