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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

Social media for science: The geologic perspective

Where Are the Talking Robots?

Teaching a machine to speak has been a dream for decades. First, we have to figure out how we know what we know about language

2011 Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Medical and Security Screening Tech [Slide Show]

Automatic gear shifting for safer and more efficient wheelchairs; a technique for harnessing terahertz spectroscopy; "humanized" lab mice; and cheaper, more accurate malaria testing--meet this year's crop of Lemelson-M.I.T...

2011 Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Inventor Prizes Offer a Glimpse of the Future in Medical and Security Screening Tech [Slide Show]

Automatic gear shifting for safer and more efficient wheelchairs; a technique for harnessing terahertz spectroscopy; "humanized" lab mice; and cheaper, more accurate malaria testing--meet this year's crop of Lemelson-M.I.T...

Signals in a Storm: Seeing Brain Cells Communicate

A new computer-imaging technique shows researchers how brain cells communicate—one molecule at a time

Brain Project, Robot Companions among Finalists in Billion-Euro Technology Contest

Cuddly robots and virtual brains battle for mega-grants.

Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Could Account for Sun's Recent Slumber

A new model for the sun's inner workings may help explain the most recent solar minimum, when sunspots all but disappeared for an unusually long time

Keep the Internet Fair

The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat. Here's a simple fix

Self-Aware Robots?

Journalist Charles Choi talks about work being done to make robots self-aware. Plus, we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

Cosmological crowd-sourcing: Amateur's nebula pic wins ESO astro-image competition

Astronomy buffs know that the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a conglomerate of 15 European countries that operates three observing sites in Chile, is a font of awesome space images ...

Apple's iPad 2.0 will face stiffer competition than its predecessor

Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar

Researchers find success using a massive distributed computing network to search radio waves for pulsars. In the coming decade they hope to find evidence of gravitational waves

Calendar: MIND events in March and April

Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain

Talking Science and the Google Science Fair [Video]

You'll believe anything you read online, won't you?

Recommended: Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age

Books and recommendation from Scientific American