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Getting a Leg Up on Evolution--the Comic Book Version

A graphic tour of how we humans came to be, through the eyes of space aliens Bloort and Prince Floorsh

How long does it take for your brain to realize you have started to wear a hearing aid?

Contact: The Day After

If we are ever going to pick up a signal from E.T., it is going to happen soon, astronomers say. And we already have a good idea how events will play out

Don't Worry about Who's Watching

Privacy concerns are overblown, even in our always connected world

Readers Respond to "The End" and Other Articles

Letters to the editor from the September 2010 issue of Scientific American

Calendar: MIND events in January and February

Museum exhibits, conferences and events relating to the brain

They're Young, and They're Restless: Collegiate Inventors Face Off

While we fret, some college students are busy creating the future

Together and Apart

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the highlights of the issue

What Attachment Theory Can Teach about Love and Relationships

The surprising secrets to finding the right partner for a healthy relationship

100 Trillion Connections: New Efforts Probe and Map the Brain's Detailed Architecture

The noise of billions of brain cells trying to communicate with one another may hold a crucial clue to understanding consciousness

Behavior Frontiers: Can Social Science Combat Climate Change?

Scientists remove some of the guesswork about how individuals will use energy in 2050 by looking at past campaigns to induce personal change and their effectiveness

The Bright Spots of Kids' TV

Four programs may help stimulate an early interest in the sciences

How to name a dinosaur

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Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Body of Thought: How Trivial Sensations Can Influence Reasoning, Social Judgment and Perception

Fleeting sensations and body movements hold sway over what we feel and how we think

Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying

In this chapter from his new e-book, journalist Carl Zimmer tries to reconcile the visions of techno-immortalists with the exigencies imposed by real-world biology

A Click of the Tongue: Ultrasound Translates Dying Languages

Linguists have found a new application for ultrasound—decoding dying languages

Young Female Chimps Cradle Stick-Toys like Dolls

Recent research finds that chimps tend to fall into the same gender-specific roles as human children do, even without any gender-specific tools. Karen Hopkin reports

The line between science and journalism is getting blurry....again

Talk to the Machine: Progress in Speech-Recognition Software, by David Pogue

Speech-recognition programs are no longer clumsy exercises in futility