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Good social skills depend on picking up on other people's moods--a feat the brain performs by combining numerous sensory clues

Robert O. Duncan, a behavioral scientist at York College, the City University of New York, responds

Readers Respond to "The Death of Preschool"—and More

The social media site reveals daily emotional rhythms are consistent across cultures

The discovery of multitasking masterminds is revealing how the brain works when it strives to do several things at once

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

When to engage with negative feelings and when to ignore them

New findings point to relationship issues as the primary cause of female sexual dysfunction

Join the more than 5,000 citizen scientists who are helping researchers identify the songs of individual whales. Mariette DiChristina reports

Swiss Academy of Sciences members are uneasy about a project to simulate the entire brain and explore how neural circuits give rise to behavior and cognition

Alex and a chimpanzee named Sheba are the only nonhumans that have so far been shown to represent the numerical value of a summed set, an ability once thought to depend on language