Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series about emerging neurotechnologies. Join a pilot class of 12 PhD students at MIT as we explore how neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of the brain...
The award, which comes with a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend paid out over five years, also went to black carbon and nano materials researchers
On this blog, in my book The End of War and elsewhere (see Further Reading and Viewing), I have knocked the deep roots theory of war, which holds that war stems from an instinct deeply embedded in the genes of our male ancestors...
Plato once noted that “creativity is a divine madness, a gift from gods." Romantic notions of the link between mental illness and creativity still appear prominently in popular culture...
In a discussion with Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina, three noted experts on creativity, each with a very different perspective and background, reveal powerful ways to unleash your creative self...
Animals can be deceived, but do animals feel wonderment, awe, or sense that they have experienced the impossible?
Every so often, we face a job we dread because it seems exceedingly dull. As a child, I felt that way about household chores—scrubbing a toilet, sweeping a floor, wiping a countertop, weeding...
Just when it seems there's a mobile app for just about everything, psychologists have shown there's room for one more: they are using smartphones to help them better understand the dynamics of moral and immoral behavior out in the community...
The first exhibit of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is a multimedia display entitled, "We Remember". Sixteen speakers surround visitors with a barrage of voices as accompanying text is projected onto a world map: Someone barged in and said, "Oh my God...
Books and recommendations from Scientific American MIND
Mindfulness meditation can help alleviate depression and possibly anxiety
Scientists have mapped the innovative mind so that we can remake our own in its image
As many as 20 percent of war veterans return from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, according to a 2008 report from the RAND Corporation...
There are ways that chimpanzees are more intelligent than us
A baby's brain prioritizes learning over forming lasting memories
Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Juneau, Alaska
How does the brain form new memories without ever filling up? Scientists turn to the youngest neurons for answers
Psychedelic drugs are poised to be the next major breakthrough in mental health care
