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Lose Focus, Lose Happiness

A wandering mind may bring you down

Getting to Know You: Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links

The brain behind many of the shortened URLs on the Web talks about data analysis and how it lets her figure out which soccer team won without watching the match

Use It Better: The Best Ways to Digitize Your Photos, Music and Home Videos

Do-it-yourself or send it out, here are some tips and recommendations to preserve your analog past

Seeing Forever: Storing Bits Isn't the Same as Preserving Them, by David Pogue

Digital photos and videos are great, but don't expect your grandkids to see them

Physicists entangle a record-breaking 14 quantum bits

A Stimulating Solution for Math Problems

A device that sends electric current through the brain improves numerical skills

Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells

An advanced brain-machine interface enables patients to control individual nerve cells deep inside their own brains

Too Hard for Science?: Making astronauts with printers

Your Avatar, Your Guide: Digital Doubles Can Improve Social Skills—or Create False Memories

Seeing a digital doppelgänger can change your mind--for better or worse

The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts

The Yahoo! Labs scientist and author explains why the "law of the few" is bunk, why history is full of failed hedgehogs, and why we can't make good predictions about just those things we most want to predict...

Poetic masterpiece of Claude Shannon, father of information theory, published for the first time

Behind the scenes with the Fe Maidens at this year's FIRST Robotics Competition

Robots Arrive at Fukushima Nuclear Site with Unclear Mission

Generally, bots have proved effective operating in high-radiation environments, but Japan's nuclear crisis poses new challenges

Satellite images show tsunami-ravaged Japan coast

When devastation extends as far as the human eye can see, digital eyes in the sky can provide essential information for emergency response efforts.

Seconds Before the Big One

Earthquake detection systems can sound the alarm in the moments before a big tremor strikes—time enough to save lives

April 2011 Briefing Memo

MIND in Pictures: I Think, Therefore I Scan

Readers Respond to "Mind Over Magic?"--and More...

Letters to the editor about the November/December 2010 issue of Scientific American MIND Readers Respond to "Mind Over Magic?"—and More...

Can You See Me Now?

A camera with a unique, spherical lens may bring single-shot gigapixel cameras closer to reality

From iPhones to SciPhones

Scientists are developing iPhone apps that aid in research and that appeal to "citizen scientists" as well