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The Mystery of the Missed Connection

A common but little understood malformation reveals the brain's incredible plasticity

The Multisensory Revolution: Why Your Brain Is a Sensory Smoothie

Our many different senses collaborate even more than previously realized. What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel

Memory Molecule Dethroned

Two studies refute an enzyme’s essential role in remembering and forgetting

Focus on Yourself to Alleviate Social Pain

A training program in mindfulness reduces loneliness and social anxiety

The Nerve-Growth Factor: A New Tool for Manipulating Neurons

This protein plays a key role in the formation of the nervous system. It has also been employed as an "Ariadne's thread" to explore mechanisms of nerve-cell growth and differentiation

How to Prevent Jet Lag

Scientists describe a system of light exposure that will make long plane trips more pleasurable

Are You Afraid of Happiness [Quiz]

A fear of happiness often coexists with other mental disorders

Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini

The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells

How Neuroscientists Observe Brains Watching Movies

Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip

Beauty in a Brain Tumor?

Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2

Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The W isdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success...

Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 1

Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The W isdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success...

Neural Pointillism: Lighting Up the Brain in Psychedelic Relief [Slide Show]

Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system

Neural Pointillism: Lighting Up the Brain in Psychedelic Relief [Slide Show]

Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system

Monkey Brain Area Keeps Count of Kindnesses

The primates have an altruistic 'tally chart' that keeps track of social rewards and gifts

The Most Popular Scientific American Stories of 2012

Here are the stories you clicked on the most on our site

January 2013 Briefing Memo

Music's Effects on the Mind Remain Mysterious

Creativity is important—without it, human society cannot survive—yet finding an appropriate method to quantify imagination has scientists stumped

The Neuroscience Lessons of Freestyle Rap

What brain scans of rap artists reveal about creativity—and what they do not

We Listen with Our Hands, Too

Hearing action words can cause subtle motor responses--but context is key. Daisy Yuhas reports